Etymograph

English

fuchsine

Fuchsine comes from French fuchsine.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentfuchsine
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1894same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentfuchsine
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1894same form

Earliest quotation: 1894, Rufus Phillips Williams, What Chemistry Is: “By other experiments a much finer subdivision can be…”

Formed from fuchsia + -ine

New Latin

English fuchsia

The story

Possibly from fuchsia + -ine, because of its colour, or from German Fuchs (‘fox’) + -ine, because of the first manufacturer, Renard (renard means “fox” in French).

Every English word from French fuchsine

Today it means

noun A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride, C₂₀H₁₉N₃·HCl) usually a deep red or magenta colour.

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Etymograph / French fuchsine / fuchsine

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