nielle
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See also: niellé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French nielle. Doublet of nigella.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nielle (comparative more nielle, superlative most nielle)
- Extremely dark black.
- 1999, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Gravity Dreams, page 5:
- That sky was not purple, nor blue, but nielle, blackness beyond black, with stars that jabbed like knives of light.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Late Latin nigella, substantivization of the feminine of Latin nigellus (“blackish”).
Noun[edit]
nielle f (plural nielles)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Often considered a borrowing from Italian niello (from Latin nigellus), but may also reflect a deverbal of nieller, inherited from the same Latin source, perhaps nevertheless influenced in its spelling by Italian.[1]
Noun[edit]
nielle m (plural nielles)
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
nielle
- inflection of nieller:
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nĭgĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 129
Further reading[edit]
- “nielle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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