madder

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmædə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Old English mæddre, mædre, from Germanic, perhaps from an Indo-European base meaning ‘blue’. Cognate with Swedish madra.

Noun

madder (plural madders)

1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.
2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
3. A dye made from the plant.
4. A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

   madder colour:

Translations

plant

• Catalan: roja (ca) f
• Dutch: meekrap (nl) m and f
• Finnish: värimatara (fi)
• French: garance (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can

• Italian: robbia (it) f, robbia domestica (it) f
• Japanese: アカネ (ja) (akane)
• Russian: марена (ru) (mar'éna) f
• Spanish: rubia roja (es) f

root

• Finnish: ‎värimataran juuri
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can

• Italian: robbia (it) f
• Russian: марена (ru) (mar'éna) f

dye

• Finnish: alitsariini (fi), krappi (fi), alitsariinipunainen (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: alizarina (it) f
• Japanese: あかね (ja) (akane)

• Portuguese: vermelho (pt) m
• Russian: крапп (ru) (krapp) m
• Spanish: rojo de alizarina (es) m

colour

• Finnish: alitsariinipunainen (fi)
• French: garance (fr)
• Italian: rosso di robbia (it) m

• Japanese: 茜色 (ja) (あかねいろ, akaneiro)
• Spanish: rojo turco (es) m

Adjective

madder (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Translations

colour

• French: garance (fr)
• Japanese: 茜色の (ja) (あかねいろの, akaneiro no)

• Russian: краповый (ru) (krapovyj)
• Spanish: rojo turco (es)

Related terms

• alizarin

See also

• bedstraw
• bluets
• genipap
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From mead

Noun

madder (plural madders)

1. Obsolete form of mether.
   • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "O'Rourke's Feast":

     Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,

     A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,

     O there is the sport! […]

References

• Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

Anagrams

• marded, MedDRA