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==Etymology==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French violete, diminutive of viole violet, from [[Latin]] viola
Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] The first recorded use of violet as a [[color]] [[name]] in [[English]] was in 1370.
==Definitions==
*1 a : any of a genus (Viola of the [[family]] Violaceae, the violet family) of chiefly herbs with alternate stipulate leaves and showy flowers in spring and often cleistogamous flowers in [[summer]]; especially : one with smaller usually solid-colored flowers as distinguished from the usually larger-flowered violas and pansies
:b : any of several plants of genera other than that of the violet — compare dogtooth violet
*2 : any of a [[group]] of [[colors]] of reddish-blue hue, low lightness, and medium saturation
==Description==
As the name of a color, '''violet''' (named after the flower [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(plant) violet]) is synonymous with a bluish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple purple]. Since [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton Isaac Newton] listed ''violet'' as his name for the [[color]] of the short-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength wavelength] end of the visible [[spectrum]] (approximately 380–450 nm),[1] when both of the names ''purple'' and ''violet'' are used within the same [[system]], violet tends to [[represent]] colors nearer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue blue], while purple is used for [[colors]] more nearly between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue blue] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red red]. Objects [[reflecting]] only [[light]] wavelengths in the aforementioned “violet range” would appear very [[dark]], because [[human]] [[vision]] is [[relatively]] insensitive to those wavelengths, but the [[color]] of a monochromatic [[light]] source emitting only those wavelengths can be roughly approximated by the color shown below as electric violet.
==See also==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors List of colors]
[[Category: General Reference]]
==Etymology==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French violete, diminutive of viole violet, from [[Latin]] viola
Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century] The first recorded use of violet as a [[color]] [[name]] in [[English]] was in 1370.
==Definitions==
*1 a : any of a genus (Viola of the [[family]] Violaceae, the violet family) of chiefly herbs with alternate stipulate leaves and showy flowers in spring and often cleistogamous flowers in [[summer]]; especially : one with smaller usually solid-colored flowers as distinguished from the usually larger-flowered violas and pansies
:b : any of several plants of genera other than that of the violet — compare dogtooth violet
*2 : any of a [[group]] of [[colors]] of reddish-blue hue, low lightness, and medium saturation
==Description==
As the name of a color, '''violet''' (named after the flower [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(plant) violet]) is synonymous with a bluish [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple purple]. Since [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton Isaac Newton] listed ''violet'' as his name for the [[color]] of the short-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength wavelength] end of the visible [[spectrum]] (approximately 380–450 nm),[1] when both of the names ''purple'' and ''violet'' are used within the same [[system]], violet tends to [[represent]] colors nearer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue blue], while purple is used for [[colors]] more nearly between [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue blue] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red red]. Objects [[reflecting]] only [[light]] wavelengths in the aforementioned “violet range” would appear very [[dark]], because [[human]] [[vision]] is [[relatively]] insensitive to those wavelengths, but the [[color]] of a monochromatic [[light]] source emitting only those wavelengths can be roughly approximated by the color shown below as electric violet.
==See also==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors List of colors]
[[Category: General Reference]]