mauve

Borrowed from French mauve, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. First coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɔːv/, /moʊv/

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• Rhymes: -əʊv

mauve (plural mauves)

1. (historical) A bright purple synthetic dye.
2. The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.

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mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)

1. Having a pale purple colour.

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• aevum, ævum

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From Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. mallow

mauve m (plural mauves)

1. mauve

mauve (plural mauves)

1. mauve

From Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. mew, gull, seagull

• mouette
• goéland

• mauviette
• mauvis

• “mauve” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”).

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. (Jersey) seagull, herring gull

• mâove (continental Normandy)
• maoue (Guernsey)

From Old French, from Latin malva.

mauve f (plural mauves)

1. (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea}}

• mauve dé gardîn
• grand' mauve
• maûvi