beige
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ))
Pronunciation
Noun
beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)
- A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- beige:
- Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
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Adjective
beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)
- Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
- (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
- 2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover, page 48:
- Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.
- 2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances
- In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.
- 2016, Penelope Garcia, “The Witness”, in Criminal Minds, season 11, episode 2:
- Charlie reminds me of the color beige (...) He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch beige, from French beige.
Adjective
beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)
Inflection
Declension of beige | ||||
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uninflected | beige | |||
inflected | beige | |||
comparative | beiger | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | beige | beiger | het beigest het beigeste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | beige | beigere | beigeste |
n. sing. | beige | beiger | beigeste | |
plural | beige | beigere | beigeste | |
definite | beige | beigere | beigeste | |
partitive | beiges | beigers | — |
Derived terms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)
Declension
Inflection of beige (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | beige | beiget | |
genitive | beigen | beigejen | |
partitive | beigeä | beigejä | |
illative | beigeen | beigeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | beige | beiget | |
accusative | nom. | beige | beiget |
gen. | beigen | ||
genitive | beigen | beigejen beigein rare | |
partitive | beigeä | beigejä | |
inessive | beigessä | beigeissä | |
elative | beigestä | beigeistä | |
illative | beigeen | beigeihin | |
adessive | beigellä | beigeillä | |
ablative | beigeltä | beigeiltä | |
allative | beigelle | beigeille | |
essive | beigenä | beigeinä | |
translative | beigeksi | beigeiksi | |
abessive | beigettä | beigeittä | |
instructive | — | beigein | |
comitative | — | beigeine |
Noun
beige
- beige (color)
Declension
Inflection of beige (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | beige | beiget | ||
genitive | beigen | beigejen | ||
partitive | beigeä | beigejä | ||
illative | beigeen | beigeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | beige | beiget | ||
accusative | nom. | beige | beiget | |
gen. | beigen | |||
genitive | beigen | beigejen beigein rare | ||
partitive | beigeä | beigejä | ||
inessive | beigessä | beigeissä | ||
elative | beigestä | beigeistä | ||
illative | beigeen | beigeihin | ||
adessive | beigellä | beigeillä | ||
ablative | beigeltä | beigeiltä | ||
allative | beigelle | beigeille | ||
essive | beigenä | beigeinä | ||
translative | beigeksi | beigeiksi | ||
abessive | beigettä | beigeittä | ||
instructive | — | beigein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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French
Etymology
From Old French bege.
Pronunciation
Adjective
beige (plural beiges)
Descendants
Further reading
- “beige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- Predicative form: IPA(key): /beːʃ/, /bɛːʃ/
- Inflected forms: IPA(key): /beːʒə/, /bɛːʒə/, /beːʃə/, /bɛːʃə/
Adjective
beige (not comparable)
Usage notes
Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [beːʒə] Haus – the beige house.
The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.
Declension
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
beige
- first-person singular present indicative of beigen
- first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
- third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
- second-person singular imperative of beigen
Further reading
- “beige” in Duden online
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
beige (invariable)
- Alternative form of beis
Noun
beige m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of beis
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Attested from 1895. Borrowed from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Swedish" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /beːɧ/, /bɛːɧ/
- Rhymes: -eːɧ, -ɛːɧ
Adjective
beige
- beige.
- Hon hade en lång, beige kappa på sig.
- She wore a long, beige coat.
- (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.
- Din morsa är så jävla beige!
- Your mother is so damn dull.
Declension
Inflection of beige | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | beige | beigare | beigast |
Neuter singular | beigt | beigare | beigast |
Plural | beiga | beigare | beigast |
Masculine plural3 | beige | beigare | beigast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | beige | beigare | beigaste |
All | beiga | beigare | beigaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
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