magenta

Etymology

Named in 1860 by Edward Chambers Nicholson and George Maule after the Battle of Magenta, fought the previous year in Magenta, Lombardy. The town's name is from Latin castrum Maxentiae, "castle of Maxentius."

noun

  1. A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
    web magenta (additive magenta):
    printer's magenta (subtractive magenta):
    Prismacolor magenta:

adj

  1. having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

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