pigment
/ˈpɪɡ.mənt/
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New Zealand/ˈpəɡ.mənt/
pigment noun: any color in plant or animal cells.
Noun
pigment (plural pigments)
- Any color in plant or animal cells.
- Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
- Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
- Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
- Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 61
Verb
pigment (third-person singular simple present pigments, present participle pigmenting, simple past and past participle pigmented)
- To add color or pigment to something.
pigment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
pigment in Hindi
- pigment, dye, coloring
- रंजक rañjak
pigment in Tamil
- நிறமூட்டுப் பொருள், வண்ணமூட்டுப் பொருள், நிறப்பசை, நிறமி, நிறம்வழங்கி, நிறப்பூச்சு
pigment in Marathi
- रंगद्रव्य, रंगद्रव
pigment in Urdu
- رنگ, روغن
More languagesFewer languages
- pigment in Bengali
- রঞ্জক
- pigment in Telugu
- వర్ణకము varṇakamu
- pigment in Malayalam
- ചായം, ചായക്കൂട്ട്, വർണ്ണം
- pigment in Kannada
- ಪೊಗರು, ಹೊಗರು
- pigment in Gujarati
- રંગદ્રવ્ય, પિગમેન્ટ, પિગમેંટ
- pigment in Odia
- ପିଗମେଣ୍ଟ, ରଙ୍ଗଦ୍ରଵ୍ଯ
- pigment in Nepali
- पिगमेन्ट, पिगमेंट, पिगमन्ट
- pigment in Tagalog
- dinsol
- pigment in Persian
- رنگیزه rangize, رنگدانه rangdâne, پیگمان pigmân, پیگمنت pigment
- pigment in Vietnamese
- sắc tố, chất màu
Examples of pigment in a sentence
- Linseed oil is often used as the carrier for pigment in oil painting.
- Some are mere lumps of pigment that detect light; others are simple cups lacking lenses.
- In the mayolike blend, the yolk created sturdy links between pigment particles, resulting in stiffer paint.
Forms of pigment
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pigments |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pigments |
| present participle | pigmenting |
| past participle | pigmented |
| past | pigmented |
Origin of pigment
From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“to paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Words formed from pigment
- pigmentation
- repigment
- accessory pigment
- azo pigment
- bile pigment
- biopigment
- copigment
- cytopigment
- depigment
- fugitive pigment
- interpigment
- lake pigment
- lipopigment
- nonpigment
- phaeopigment
- pheopigment
- photopigment
- phytopigment
- pigmental
- pigmentary
- pigmentate
- pigment dispersion syndrome
- pigmentize
- pigmentless
- pigmentlike
- pigmentocracy
- pigmentous
- pigmenturia
- respiratory pigment
Questions about pigment
- What does pigment mean?
- Pigment means any color in plant or animal cells.
- What is pigment in Hindi?
- Pigment in Hindi is रंजक (rañjak). See Pigment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is pigment?
- Pigment can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce pigment?
- Pigment is pronounced /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pigment?
- The plural of pigment is pigments.
Words near pigment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pigment (page history and authors); रंजक (Hindi) (page history and authors); pigment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pigment (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pigment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pigment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pigment (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pigment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pigment (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pigment (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pigment (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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