magenta

Named in 1860 by Edward Chambers Nicholson and George Maule after the Battle of Magenta, fought the previous year in Magenta, Lombardy. The town's name is from Latin castrum Maxentiae, "castle of Maxentius."

• IPA^(key): /məˈd͡ʒɛntə/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧gen‧ta

magenta (countable and uncountable, plural magentas)

1. A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

   web magenta (additive magenta):  

   printer's magenta (subtractive magenta):  

   Prismacolor magenta:  

• fuchsia
• fuchsine

• magenta box

magenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)

1. having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

• gateman, magnate, nametag

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magenta f (uncountable)

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

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• IPA^(key): /maːˈɣɛntaː/
• IPA^(key): /maːˈdʒɛntaː/
• Hyphenation: ma‧gen‧ta

magenta n (plural magenta's)

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

magenta (invariable, comparative meer magenta, superlative meest magenta)

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour)

magenta (accusative singular magentan, plural magentaj, accusative plural magentajn)

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour)

From English magenta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɡentɑ/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡe̞n̪t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑɡentɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ma‧gen‧ta

magenta

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

magenta

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour)

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʒɛ̃.ta/

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magenta m (uncountable)

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

• “magenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /maˈd͡ʒɛn.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛnta
• Hyphenation: ma‧gèn‧ta

magenta m (invariable)

1. (color) magenta (pinkish purple colour/color)

magenta (invariable)

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour/color)

• magnate, tamagne

Borrowed from English magenta.

• IPA^(key): /maˈɡɛn.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnta
• Syllabification: ma‧gen‧ta

magenta f

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

• magenta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• magenta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
• Hyphenation: ma‧gen‧ta

magenta m (plural magentas)

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

magenta (invariable)

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour)

Borrowed from French magenta.

magenta f (uncountable)

1. magenta

• IPA^(key): /maˈxenta/ [maˈxẽn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: ma‧gen‧ta

magenta m (uncountable)

1. magenta (pinkish purple colour)

magenta (invariable)

1. magenta (being of the magenta colour)

• “magenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• magnate