hyacinthus

Japanese: hyacinthus
hyacinthus


[Purple as a symbol]
Purple, a color made by overlapping blue and red, changes in various ways depending on the ratio of blue to red. In the West, different names are used for these changes, with those that are equal to each other called viola (originally meaning "violet") in Latin, those with a strong reddish hue called purpura (derived from the shellfish Purpura, from which crimson dye is extracted), and those with a strong blue hue called hyacinthus (derived from the blue-flowering plant Hyacinthus). Of these, purpura (the origin of the English word purple and the French word pourre) is an expensive dye, so silk fabrics dyed with it were especially prized, and in ancient Rome it was reserved for the imperial family.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "hyacinthus" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[象徴としての紫]
 青と赤とを重ねた色である紫は,青と赤の割合に応じてさまざまに変化する。西洋ではその変化に応じて異なった名称を使い,両者等分のものをラテン語でウィオラviola(本来〈すみれ〉の意),赤みの強いものをプルプラpurpura(深紅色の染料がとれる貝Purpuraに由来),青みの強いものをヒュアキントゥスhyacinthus(青い花を咲かせる植物Hyacintusに由来)と分けている。そのうちプルプラ(英語のpurple,フランス語のpourpreなどの語源)は,その色の染料が高価なので,これで染めた絹布はとくに貴重視され,古代ローマ時代には皇室の専用品となった。…

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