Noun: indigo
| Singular | indigo |
| Plural | indigos; indigoes |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
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A Southern planter has been sowing indigo and cotton together. Perhaps he contemplates raising blue cotton; and should he water the plants with nitric acid, he would probably raise gun cotton—if any. [1846, editorial staff, “Growing Cotton”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 98:]
Nouns inflected like indigo
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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 ἰνδικόν (indikón, “Indian dye”), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of Indic. See: Spanish Nouns '
índigo', Portuguese Nouns '
endego', Latin Nouns '
indicum'.
Verbs referencing "indigo"
Irish Nouns
indeagó.