Meaning and Origin
What does the name Hue mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
- Color or shade of color; tint; dye."Flowers of all hue." [Milton.]" Hues of the rich unfolding morn." [Keble.]
- [Painting] A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
Etymology: OE. hew heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw heow; akin to Sw. hy skin, complexion, Goth. hiwi form, appearance
Etymology: OE. hue huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu an exclamation
- The quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
- Suffuse with color
- Take on color or become colored ("In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey")
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew, hīw (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégóma (“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”).
- (obsolete) Form; appearance; guise.
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- 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 together with saturation and value.
- (figuratively) A character; aspect.
From Old French hu, a hunting cry.
- (obsolete) A shout or cry.
hue was also found in the following language(s): Aragonese, Danish, French, Hawaiian, Maori, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Portuguese