- carmine
[carmine 词源字典]
- carmine: see crimson
[carmine etymology, carmine origin, 英语词源] - carmine (n.)
- 1712, originally of the dyestuff, from French carmin (12c.), from Medieval Latin carminium, from Arabic qirmiz "crimson" (see kermes). Form influenced in Latin by minium "red lead, cinnabar," a word said to be of Iberian origin. As an adjective from 1737; as a color name from 1799.