hue

See also hué, Hue, Hué, Huë, and Huế

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hju/

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• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew, hiw 'form, appearance, color', from Proto-Germanic *hiwjan (cf. Swedish hy 'skin, complexion'), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁- 'dark shade' (cf. Ir céo 'fog', Tocharian B ... (kwele) 'black, dark gray', Lithuanian šývas 'light gray', Albanian thinjë 'gray', Sanskrit ... (śyāvá) 'brown').

Noun

hue (plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color, blee; tint; dye.
   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

2. The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.

   In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.

3. (figuratively) A character; aspect, blee.

Derived terms

• hued

Translations

color or shade of color, blee; tint; dye

Danish: farve (da) c., skær (da) n. Dutch: (kleur) schakering (nl), tint (nl) Finnish: väri (fi), sävy (fi), värisävy (fi) French: teinte (fr) f. German: Farbton (de) m. Greek: απόχρωση (el) (apóchrosi) f., χροιά (el) (chroiá) f. Hungarian: színárnyalat (hu), árnyalat (hu) Icelandic: litblær (is) m., litur (is) m., farfi (is) m. Italian: colore (it), tinta (it), sfumatura (it), tonalita (it)

Latin: color (la) m. Norwegian: farve (no) n. Old English: hīew (ang), hiw (ang) Portuguese: matiz (pt) f., tom (pt) m. Russian: оттенок (ru) (otténok) m. Spanish: (of people) color (es) m. tono (es) m. coloración (es) f. (obsolete); (of object) matiz (es) m. tono (es) m. coloración (es) f. Swedish: kulör (sv) färgnyans (sv)

character; aspect

Danish: afskygning (da) c. Dutch: aanblik (nl), voorkomen (nl) n. Finnish: vivahde (fi), häivähdys (fi)

Greek: χροιά (el) (chroiá) f. Italian: colorito (it) m. Spanish: matiz (es) m.

the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color

Danish: farvetone (da) c. Finnish: väri (fi)

Spanish: matiz (es) m. tonalidad (es) f.

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French: nuance f. Gilbertese: mata Greek: χροιά (el) (chroiá) f.

Norwegian: fargetone Portuguese: matiz f., tonalidade f.

Etymology 2

From Old French hu, a hunting cry

Noun

hue (plural hues)

1. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

Derived terms

• hue and cry

Anagrams

• HEU

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

hue c. (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)

1. A cap

Inflection

    Inflection of hue

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	hue	huen	huer	huerne
genitive	hues	huens	huers	huernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse huga (“think”)

Verb

hue (imperative hu, infinitive at hue, present tense huer, past tense huede, past participle har huet)

1. in?(transitive) To please

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French

Etymology

onomatopoeia, compare Dutch ju

Interjection

hue!

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right

Antonyms

• dia!

Verb form

hue

1. imperative and singular present imperfect forms of huer

Anagrams

• euh

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Hawaiian

Etymology

Common Polynesian

Noun

hue

1. A gourd

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Maori

Etymology

Common Polynesian

Noun

hue

1. A gourd (plant)

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Norwegian

Noun

hue

1. A cap
2. (dialect) (metonymy) A head