violaceous
adjective
violaceous is an adjective meaning “Violet-colored” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-O-L-A-C-E-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does violaceous mean?
adjective
- 1
Violet-colored.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of violaceous
- more violaceous comparative
- most violaceous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is violaceous?
Violaceous appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Violaceous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense violet-colored:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | violáceo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does violaceous come from?
From Latin violāceus (“violet-coloured”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).