nielle

Borrowed from French nielle. Doublet of nigella.

• IPA^(key): /njɛl/

nielle (comparative more nielle, superlative most nielle)

1. Extremely dark black.
   • 1999, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Gravity Dreams, p. 5

     That sky was not purple, nor blue, but nielle, blackness beyond black, with stars that jabbed like knives of light.

• Nellie

• IPA^(key): /njɛl/

From Late Latin nigella, feminine noun form of Latin nigellus.

nielle f (plural nielles)

1. corncockle
2. blight, ear cockle

• nieller
• niellure

From Old French neel, neial, from a substantivation of Latin nigellus.

nielle m (plural nielles)

1. niello

• nieller
• nielleur

nielle

1. first-person singular present indicative of nieller
2. third-person singular present indicative of nieller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of nieller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of nieller
5. second-person singular imperative of nieller

• “nielle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).