indigo

• n. 靛藍，靛藍染料；靛藍色；槐藍屬植物
• adj. 靛藍色的

來自希臘語indikon,印度進口的藍色染料，詞源同India.

indigo

indigo: [16] Etymologically indigo, a blue dye, is the ‘Indian dye’ – so named because supplies of it were obtained from India. The term is an ancient one. It originated in Greek indikón, literally the ‘Indian substance’, a derivative of the adjective Indikós ‘Indian’, and passed via Latin indicum and Spanish indico into English as indico.

This was replaced in the 17th century by the Portuguese form indigo, and it was Portuguese influence, stemming from their commercial activities in India, that really established the term among the European languages (hitherto the commoner term for the dye had been anil, a word of Sanskrit origins). (The name India, incidentally, to which indigo is related, comes ultimately from Old Persian hiñd’u, which originally meant ‘river’, was subsequently applied specifically to the river Indus, and finally became the name for the country through which the Indus flowed.)
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indigo (n.)

1550s, from Spanish indico, Portuguese endego, and Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum "indigo," from Greek indikon "blue dye from India," literally "Indian (substance)," neuter of indikos "Indian," from India (see India). As "the color of indigo" from 1620s. Replaced Middle English ynde (late 13c., from Old French inde, from Latin indicum). Earlier name in Mediterranean languages was annil, anil (see aniline).

1. Indigo tattoos adorn her forehead.

她的前額紋著靛青色的刺青。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The sky was indigo blue, and a great many stars were shining.

天空一片深藍, 閃爍著點點繁星.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. Indigo develop Sapphire paper surface treatment technologies and Topaz plastic film surface treatment technologies.

Indigo研製出了Sapphire紙張表麵處理技術和Topaz的塑料膠片表麵處理技術.

來自互聯網

4. He slipped into an indigo tank.

他滑落到藍靛桶中.

來自辭典例句

5. Plantations in Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas grow staple crops of tobacco, rice and indigo.

馬裏蘭 、 弗吉尼亞和卡羅來納的種植園盛產煙草 、 大米和靛藍類染料.

來自辭典例句