Meaning and Origin
What does the name Magenta mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- According to a user from Pennsylvania, U.S., the name Magenta is of Italian origin and means "It's a town in Italy. When the battle of Magenta took place that's also how the color came about".
- The purplish-red color of magenta.
- A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
- A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
- Of deep purplish red
Named in 1859 by Edward Chambers Nicholson after the Battle of Magenta, fought earlier that year in Magenta, Lombardy. The town's name is from Latin castrum Maxentiae, "castle of Maxentius."
- A light purple, purplish-red, 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.
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magenta was also found in the following language(s): Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish