Adjective: carmin
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | carmin |
| Singular f. | carmin |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like carmin
plusieurs,
a divinis,
saphir,
salish,
sindhi,
antibrouillard,
en travaux,
pète-couilles,
hors de prix,
hors de pair,
comme ça,
antiblanchiment,
à l'oiseau royal,
mal en point,
de caractère,
d'habitude,
dans tous ses états,
pro-business,
à livre ouvert,
au bout du fil, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Possibly from Medieval Latin *carminium, from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) (from Sanskrit कृमिज (kṛmija, “produced by worms”), from कृमि (kṛ́mi, “worm, insect”)), plus or with influence from Latin minium.
2. Or, from a contraction of Old French carmesin, from Spanish carmesí. See: Spanish Adjectives '
carmesí'.
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