alizarine
French, noun/a.li.za.ʁin/
alizarine is a French feminine noun meaning “alizarin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Colorant rouge, dérivé de l'anthraquinone que l'on extrait de la racine de la garance des teinturiers (Rubia…”.
What does alizarine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealizarin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Colorant rouge, dérivé de l'anthraquinone que l'on extrait de la racine de la garance des teinturiers (Rubia tinctorum), en lui faisant subir divers traitements.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alizarine
- alizarines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alizarine?
- /a.li.za.ʁin/
- \a.li.za.ʁin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alizarine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alizarine in French?
alizarine appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).