dye
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dye¹
- /daɪ/
Sounds like die, Di, Dai, dy · Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
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”).
Cognates
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.
noun dyes · die
- A colorant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied. While the yarn is soaking in its water and vinegar bath, I prepare a selection of dyes for my preferred colorway. Isolate each dye in its own jar and place it in the larger dyepot.
- Any hue or color.
dye²
- /daɪ/
Sounds like die, Di, Dai, dy · Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
dye³
- /daɪ/
Sounds like die, Di, Dai, dy · Rhymes with -aɪ
noun dyce
- Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”). The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
Dye⁴
proper noun Dyes
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri, United States.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: dyestuff, colourant, tint, tincture, recolor, colouring, paint, stain, inking, color, brilliant, ink, oxidising, chromotrope, black, eosin
Translations
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noun a colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied
| Español | tinte, tintura |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 염료 yeomnyo |
| 日本語 | 染料 senryō |
| 中文 | 染料 rǎnliào |
| हिन्दी | रंग raṅg, रंजक rañjak |
| Português | corante, tintura |
| Français | teinture |
| Deutsch | Färbemittel, Färbmittel, Färbung (Farbnuance), Farbstoff |
| Italiano | tintura |
| Ελληνικά | βαφή vafí |
| Română | colorant, vopsea |
| Русский | кра́ска kráska, краси́тель krasítelʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | thuốc nhuộm |
| العربية | صِبْغَة ṣibḡa |
| עברית | צֶבַע tsévaʿ |
Talk about this word "dye." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dye. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. dye. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dye "dye." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dye.Cite this
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title = {dye},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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