hue

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hue"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) IPA^(key): /hjuː/, [ç(j)u̟ː]
• (US) IPA^(key): /hju/, [ç(j)u], /ju/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /hjʉː/, [ç(j)ʉː]
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /hɪu̯/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: hew, Hugh, Hiw

Etymology 1

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”).

Alternative forms

• hew (obsolete)

Noun

hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)

1. A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

2. 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.

3. (figuratively) A character; aspect.
4. (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.

Derived terms

• hued

Translations

color or shade of color; tint; dye

• Bulgarian: нюанс (bg) m (njuans), оттенък (bg) m (ottenǎk)
• Catalan: matís (ca) m, to (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色調／色调 (zh) (sèdiào), 色彩 (zh) (sècǎi)

• Danish: farve (da) c, skær n, kulør c
• Dutch: schakering (nl) f, kleurschakering f, tint (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolornuanco, nuanco de koloro
• Finnish: väri (fi), sävy (fi), värisävy
• French: teinte (fr) f, nuance (fr) f
• Galician: tonalidade (gl) f
• German: Farbton (de) m
• Greek: απόχρωση (el) f (apóchrosi)
• Hebrew: גוון (he) m (gaven)
• Hungarian: színárnyalat (hu), árnyalat (hu)
• Icelandic: litblær (is) m, litur (is) m, farfi m
• Italian: colore (it) m, tinta (it) f, sfumatura (it) f, tonalità (it) f, colorazione (it) f, ombreggiatura f, sfumatura (it) f, tratteggio (it) m
• Japanese: 色彩 (ja) (しきさい, shikisai), 色調 (ja) (しきちょう, shikichō)
• Latin: color (la) m
• Norwegian: farve (no) n, nyanse m

  Bokmål: kulør m

  Nynorsk: kulør m

• Occitan: tinta (oc) f, tencha (oc) f, tint m, tench m, matís m
• Old English: hīew n
• Persian: فام (fa) (fâm)
• Polish: odcień (pl) m
• Portuguese: matiz (pt) m, tom (pt) m, tonalidade (pt) f, nuança (pt) f, nuance (pt) f
• Russian: отте́нок (ru) m (otténok)
• Sanskrit: रङ्ग (sa) m (raṅga)
• Spanish: color (es) m, tono (es) m, coloración f, tez (es) f (of skin), matiz (es) m, tinte (es) m
• Swedish: kulör (sv) färgnyans (sv)
• Ukrainian: відті́нок m (vidtínok)
• Welsh: gwawr (cy) f, gne m

the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color

• Catalan: matís (ca) m, to (ca) m
• Danish: farvetone c
• Finnish: väri (fi), sävy (fi), värisävy
• Russian: отте́нок (ru) m (otténok)
• Spanish: matiz (es) m, tonalidad f

character; aspect

• Bulgarian: нюанс (bg) m (njuans)
• Catalan: to (ca) m
• Danish: afskygning c
• Dutch: aanblik (nl), voorkomen (nl) n
• Finnish: vivahde, häivähdys (fi)
• Greek: χροιά (el) f (chroiá)
• Italian: colorito (it) m
• Spanish: matiz (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} nuance (fr) f
• Gilbertese: ^{(please verify)} mata
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} fargetone

Etymology 2

From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.

Noun

hue (plural hues)

2. (obsolete) A shout or cry.

Derived terms

• hue and cry

Anagrams

• HEU

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• güe

Etymology

From Latin hodiē.

Adverb

hue

1. today

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

A woman or girl wearing a hue.

hue c (singular definite huen, plural indefinite huer)

1. a hat of soft material (often wool), worn in cold times

Inflection

Declension of hue

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hue	huen	huer	huerne
genitive	hues	huens	huers	huernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse huga (“think”).

Verb

hue (imperative hu, infinitive at hue, present tense huer, past tense huede, perfect tense har huet)

1. (transitive) To please
   • 1859, Joaquim Gomes de Souza, Anthologie universelle choix des meilleures poésies lyriques de diverses nations dans les langues originales, page 863:

     Moders Røst er den Vuggesang, Der huer os bedst af Alle , Modersmaal bar en himmelsk Klang, Naar Børnene "Moder" lalle.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2017, TruthBeTold Ministry, English Danish Bible No12: Geneva 1560 - Dansk 1931, TRUTHBETOLD MINISTRY JOERN ANDRE HALSETH, →ISBN:

     Da sammenkaldte de tolv Disciplenes Skare og sagde: "Det huer os ikke at forlade Guds Ord for at tjene ved Bordene.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2011, Joan Ørting, Vær åben: energi og glæde i parforholdet, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN, page 221:

     Må jeg gå til fest med mine eks'er? Der kan være et hav af flere og andre spørgsmål, som vi gerne vil have svar på, så vi ved, hvornår vi er ved at overskride vores partners grænse. Det kan jo godt ske, at partnerens grænser slet ikke huer os.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /y/

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic. Compare German hü, hüa, Dutch ju.

Interjection

hue!

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn right

   Antonym: dia!

Derived terms

• à hue et à dia

Etymology 2

Inflected form of huer

Verb

hue

1. inflection of huer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “hue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• euh

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fue (compare with Maori hue). Sense of bottle product of semantic broadening, compare with similar patterns in Samoan fagu and Tongan fangu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhu.e/, [ˈhu.we]

Noun

hue

1. bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria
   1. Any container using the dried shell of this plant, calabash.
2. bottle, flask

   Synonym: ʻōmole

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fue (compare with Hawaiian hue)

Noun

hue

1. bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria
   1. any container using the shell of this fruit, calabash

      Synonym: tahā

Further reading

• “hue” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hue

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Noun

hue f or m (definite singular hua or huen, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

Synonyms

• lue

Etymology 2

Noun

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural huer, definite plural hua or huene)

1. (dialect, metonymically) a head

Synonyms

• hode

References

• “hue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hʉː.ə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húfa.

Alternative forms

• huve

Noun

hue f (definite singular hua, indefinite plural huer, definite plural huene)

1. a cap (without a peak, often knitted), woolly hat

   Synonyms: lue, luve

Etymology 2

Noun

hue n (definite singular huet, indefinite plural hue, definite plural hua)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)
   • 1990, Ove Røsbak, Månen og skilpadde [The Moon and the Turtle], Oslo: Samlaget, page 36:

     Det var den fyrste rota han hadde sett røre på seg, og ho fekk brått eit hue der det lyste to gule, grufulle auge.

     It was the first root he'd ever seen move, and all of the sudden it got a head with two yellow, menacing eyes.

References

• “hue” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• huehue, huehuehue and so on, depending on the supposed length of the laugh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huˈe/, /ˈhwe/

Interjection

hue

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) expressing laugh; hahaha