How to pronounce carmine
American English pronunciation
KAR-myn
- IPA
- /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/
- Syllables
- KAR · myn (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What carmine means
A deep purplish-red dye once made from crushed insects
In a sentence: The artist mixed a drop of carmine into her paint to make the roses glow.
Where it comes from: It came through French and Latin from an Arabic word for crimson. Long before that, it goes back to a very old word meaning worm.
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