vermilion

English

Alternative forms

• vermillion (more at vermillion § Usage notes)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French vermeillon (“vermilion”), from vermeil, from Latin vermiculus (“little worm”), from vermis (“worm”), ultimately in reference to Kermes vermilio, a type of scale insect used to make a crimson dye.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɜː(ɹ)ˈmɪl.jən/
• Rhymes: -ɪljən

Noun

vermilion (countable and uncountable, plural vermilions)

1. A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide.
2. A vivid red or slightly orange colour.

   vermilion colour:  

   vermilion Web colour:  

   • 1749, John Cleland, “part 3”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:

     I, struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermilion

3. A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women.
4. The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face.

Derived terms

• Vermilion County
• Vermilion Parish

Related terms

• vermeil

Translations

pigment

• Finnish: sinooperipunainen
• Greek: κιννάβαρι (el) n (kinnávari)
• Hindi: सिंदूर (hi) m (sindūr)
• Irish: flanndearg m
• Japanese: 朱 (ja) (しゅ, shu)
• Norwegian: sinober (no) m, sinoberrødt n, vermilion m
• Polish: cynober (pl) m inan

• Portuguese: vermelhão m
• Romanian: vermillon (ro) n, cinabru (ro) n
• Russian: вермильо́н (ru) m (vermilʹón), ки́новарь (ru) f (kínovarʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цино́бер

  Roman: cinóber (sh)

colour

• Bulgarian: яркочервено (jarkočerveno)
• Finnish: sinooperinpunainen
• Hebrew: שָׁשַׁר‎‎ (he) m (shashár)
• Hindi: सिंदूरिया रंग m (sindūriyā raṅg)
• Irish: flanndearg
• Japanese: 朱 (ja) (しゅ, shu), 朱色 (ja) (しゅいろ, shuiro)
• Norwegian: sinober (no) m, sinoberrødt n, vermilion m

• Portuguese: vermelhão m
• Romanian: vermillon (ro)
• Russian: я́рко-кра́сный (ru) m (járko-krásnyj) (цвет), а́лый (ru) m (ályj) (цвет)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: румена f

  Roman: rumena f

• Spanish: bermellón (es), vermillo, vermellón

dye

• Greek: κιννάβαρι (el) n (kinnávari)
• Gujarati: સિંદૂર (sindūr)
• Hindi: सिंदूर (hi) m (sindūr)
• Portuguese: vermelhão m

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цино́бер

  Roman: cinóber (sh)

Adjective

vermilion (comparative more vermilion, superlative most vermilion)

1. Having a brilliant red colour.
2. Having the color of the vermilion dye.

Translations

having a brilliant red colour

• Finnish: tulipunainen (fi), kirkkaanpunainen (fi)
• French: vermeil (fr)
• Japanese: 赤い (ja) (あかい, akai)
• Old Occitan: vermelh
• Portuguese: vermelhão

• Romanian: vermeil
• Russian: я́рко-кра́сный (ru) (járko-krásnyj), а́лый (ru) (ályj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: boje cinobera

• Spanish: bermejo (es)

having the color of vermilion dye

• Finnish: sinooperinpunainen
• Hindi: सिंदूरी (hi) (sindūrī), सिंदूरिया (hi) (sindūriyā)
• Japanese: 朱色 (ja) (しゅいろ, shuiro)

• Norwegian: sinoberrød
• Persian: شنگرف‎‎ (fa) (shangarf)
• Spanish: bermejo (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} ален (alen)
• French: ^{(please verify)} vermillon (fr) m
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} vermiglio (it) m, ^{(please verify)} vermiglione m
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 朱 (zhū)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} румен m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} rumen m

See also

• red
• scarlet
• vermeil
• Appendix:Colors

Verb

vermilion (third-person singular simple present vermilions, present participle vermilioning, simple past and past participle vermilioned)

1. (transitive) To color or paint vermilion.

Anagrams

• limnivore