garance

from Old French warance, from Medieval Latin warentia "scarlet dye" (7th century), alteration of Frankish wratja (see Old English wrætte, Old High German rezza), borrowed from Latin bractea, brattea "foil, gold leaf", crossed with blatta, blattea "purple" which gives Old French blacce.

Definitions

plantes
plantes

Plural

garances

Hyperonym

rubiacées

Hyponyms

garance des teinturiersgarance voyageuse

Translations

  • germangerman:Färberröte
  • englishenglish:madder
  • chinesechinese:茜草
  • koreankorean:꼭두서니
  • danishdanish:krap
  • spanishspanish:granza
  • finnishfinnish:krappi
  • greekgreek:ερυθρόδανο
  • italianitalian:garanza
  • japanesejapanese:アカネ
  • dutchdutch:meekrap
  • polishpolish:marzana
  • portugueseportuguese:garança
  • russianrussian:марена
  • swedishswedish:krapprot
  • turkishturkish:kızılkök
  • ukrainianukrainian:марена

See also

garance (adj.) garancer (v.) garançage (cn.) garancière (cn.) garancier (cn.)