carnation

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Related terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 See also 1.6 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Related terms 2.3 Anagrams

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Recorded since 1538, either (for its original color) from Medieval (=modern) French carnation "person's color or complexion" (probably from Italian carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnatio "fleshiness", from Latin caro "flesh") or a corruption of coronation (from coronare 'to crown', from corona 'crown'; because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/
• (US) IPA: /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn

[edit] Noun

carnation (countable and uncountable; plural carnations)

1. (botany) A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
   1. originally Dianthus caryophyllus
   2. other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
2. The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
3. (color/colour) A rosy pink colour

   carnation colour:

4. (archaic) The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
5. (color/colour) Sometimes, a scarlet colour.

[edit] Synonyms

• (plant, flower): clove pink, gillyflower

[edit] Related terms

• carnal
• carnassial
• carnify
• carnival
• carnivore
• carnosity
• incarnadine
• incarnate

[edit] Translations

[edit] Adjective

carnation

1. (color/colour) of a rosy pink or red colour, like human flesh.

[edit] Translations

• Slovak: hrebíček m
• Slovene: nagelj m

[edit] See also

• gypsophila
• Appendix:Colours

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aacinnort
• Cantorian

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Plausibly from Italian carnagione "flesh color", anyway from Late Latin carnatio "fleshiness", from Latin caro "flesh") or a corruption of coronation (from coronare 'to crown', from corona 'crown'; because of the flower's use in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

[edit] Noun

carnation

1. The fleshy pinkish color carnation

[edit] Related terms

• carnage
• carnaire
• carnae
• carnier
• carnifier
• carnivore

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aacinnort
• connaitra, connaîtra