hue

See also: Hue, hué, Hué, Huế, Huê, Huë, and hü

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hjuː/, [çu̟ː]
• (US) IPA^(key): /hju/, [çu], /ju/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /hjʉː/, [çʉː]

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: Hugh

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew, hīw (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).

Alternative forms

• hew (obsolete)

Noun

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color; 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.
4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Derived terms

• hued

Translations

color or shade of color; tint; dye

• Bulgarian: нюанс (bg) m (njuans), оттенък (bg) m (ottenǎk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色調／色调 (zh) (sèdiào), 色调 (zh) (sèdiào), 色彩 (zh) (sècǎi)

• Danish: farve (da) c, skær n, kulør c
• Dutch: schakering (nl) f, kleurschakering f, tint (nl) f
• Finnish: väri (fi), sävy (fi), värisävy
• French: teinte (fr) f
• Galician: tonalidade (gl) f
• German: Farbton (de) m
• Greek: απόχρωση (el) f (apóchrosi)
• Hebrew: גוון (he) m (gaven)
• Hungarian: színárnyalat (hu), árnyalat (hu)
• Icelandic: litblær (is) m, litur (is) m, farfi m
• Italian: colore (it) m, tinta (it) f, sfumatura (it) f, tonalità (it) f, colorazione (it) f, ombreggiatura f, sfumatura (it) f, tratteggio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 色彩 (ja) (しきさい, shikisai), 色調 (しきちょう, shikichō)
• Latin: color (la) m
• Norwegian: farve (no) n, nyanse m

  Bokmål: kulør m

  Nynorsk: kulør m

• Occitan: tinta (oc) f, tencha (oc) f, tint m, tench m
• Old English: hīew, hiw
• Persian: فام (fa) (fâm)
• Polish: odcień (pl) m
• Portuguese: matiz (pt) f, tom (pt) m, tonalidade (pt) f, nuança (pt) f, nuance (pt) f
• Russian: отте́нок (ru) m (otténok)
• Sanskrit: रङ्ग (sa) m (raṅga)
• Spanish: (of people) color (es) m tono (es) m coloración f (obsolete), (of object) matiz (es) m tono (es) m coloración f
• Swedish: kulör (sv) färgnyans
• Welsh: gwawr (cy) f, gne m

character; aspect

• Bulgarian: нюанс (bg) m (njuans)
• Danish: afskygning c
• Dutch: aanblik (nl), voorkomen (nl) n
• Finnish: vivahde, häivähdys (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: χροιά (el) f (chroiá)
• Italian: colorito (it) m
• Spanish: matiz (es) m

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

• Danish: farvetone c
• Finnish: väri (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: отте́нок (ru) m (otténok)
• Spanish: matiz (es) m tonalidad f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} nuance (fr) f
• Gilbertese: ^{(please verify)} mata
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} fargetone

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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Aragonese

Alternative forms

• güe

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodiē.

Adverb

hue

1. today

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

A woman or girl wearing a hue.

hue c (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)

1. a hat of soft material (often wool), worn in cold times

Inflection

Declension of hue

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	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, perfect tense har huet)

1. (transitive) To please
   • 1859, Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Anthologie universelle choix des meilleures poésies lyriques de diverses nations dans les langues originales, page 863:

     Moders Røst er den Vuggesang, Der huer os bedst af Alle , Modersmaal bar en himmelsk Klang, Naar Børnene "Moder" lalle.

   • 2017, TruthBeTold Ministry, English Danish Bible No12: Geneva 1560 - Dansk 1931, TRUTHBETOLD MINISTRY JOERN ANDRE HALSETH (→ISBN)

     Da sammenkaldte de tolv Disciplenes Skare og sagde: "Det huer os ikke at forlade Guds Ord for at tjene ved Bordene.

   • 2011, Joan Ørting, Vær åben: energi og glæde i parforholdet, Lindhardt og Ringhof (→ISBN), page 221:

     Må jeg gå til fest med mine eks'er? Der kan være et hav af flere og andre spørgsmål, som vi gerne vil have svar på, så vi ved, hvornår vi er ved at overskride vores partners grænse. Det kan jo godt ske, at partnerens grænser slet ikke huer os.

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /y/

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, compare Dutch ju

Interjection

hue!

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

Antonyms

• dia!

Etymology 2

Inflected form of huer

Verb

hue

1. first-person singular present indicative of huer
2. third-person singular present indicative of huer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of huer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of huer
5. second-person singular imperative of huer

Anagrams

• euh

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Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

1. A gourd

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Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?].

Noun

hue

1. A gourd (plant)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of heo

References

• “he, pron. (2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of he

References

• “he, pron. (3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa

Noun

hue f or m (definite singular hua or huen, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

Synonyms

• lue

Etymology 2

Noun

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural huer, definite plural hua or huene)

1. (dialect, metonymically) a head

Synonyms

• hode

References

• “hue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• huve

Etymology

From Old Norse húfa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hʉːə/

Noun

hue f (definite singular hua, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

Synonyms

• lue, luve

References

• “hue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• huehue, huehuehue and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh

Interjection

hue

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) expressing laugh; hahaha