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red

noun

  1. type of color
L16617 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

  1. primary color between orange and magenta
L3271 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/ / [ɻʷɛˑd̥] / /ɹed/

adj

  1. red (hair color).

intj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós Proto-Germanic *raudaz Proto-West Germanic *raud Old English rēad Middle English red English red Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

  1. Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.

name

  1. A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.

noun

  1. Acronym of reverse electrodialysis.

verb

  1. Alternative spelling of redd.