hue.
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
Meaning & usage
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
Character; aspect.
This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
Form; appearance; guise.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).
A shout or cry.
Where this word comes from
From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.
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