indigo

16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek Ἰνδικὸν (Indikòn, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía).[1]

• (UK) enPR: ĭn'dĭgō, IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dɪˌɡəʊ/
• (US) enPR: ĭn'dĭgō, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɪˌɡoʊ/

indigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)

1. A purplish-blue colour

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   • 1907, Harold Edward Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict‎:

     The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.

2. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
3. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).

indigo (comparative more indigo, superlative most indigo)

1. having a deep purplish-blue colour

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indigo n (plural indigo's)

1. The colour indigo.

indigo (invariable, comparative meer indigo, superlative meest indigo)

1. indigo-coloured.

• IPA^(key): /ˈindiɡo/, [ˈindiɡo̞]
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧go

indigo

1. indigo (color)

indigo (comparative indigompi, superlative indigoin)

1. indigo (being of that color)

indigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of indigere