dye
/daɪ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Also a form of die
Forms dyes dyeing dying dyed dyce die
- noun A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
- noun Any hue or color.
- verb (ambitransitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye. “You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?”
- proper noun A surname.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
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Etymology
From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“color, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).
Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.
- noun Color produced by dyeing.
- noun Material used for dyeing; a dyestuff.
- noun Same as Die, a lot. Spenser.
Etymology [OE. deyan, dyen, AS. deágian.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “dye”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details