magenta
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[edit] English
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Named in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year.
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magenta (plural magentas)
- A light purple, purplish-red, 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.
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web magenta (additive magenta) colour: -
printer's magenta (subtractive magenta) colour: -
Prismacolor magenta (orginal magenta) colour:
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colour
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magenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)
- having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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- (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) [edit]
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magenta n. (plural magenta's)
- The colour magenta.
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magenta (comparative meer magenta, superlative meest magenta)
- magenta-coloured.
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Declension of magenta
| positive | comparative | superlative | |||
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| attributive | predicative/adverbial | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | magenta | — | |||
| neuter singular |
indefinite | magenta | — | ||
| definite | magenta | — | — | — | |
| common singular | magenta | — | — | — | |
| plural | magenta | — | — | — | |
| partitive | magenta's | — | |||
[edit] Italian
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magenta inv.
[edit] Noun
magenta m. inv.