color

Violet

Colors & materials

A named purple-blue hue between blue and purple in pigment and cloth speech. Not generic purple, and not mauveine.

  • Violet is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists violet (ἴον) among cooling flower drugs and garland herbs entering pharmacy. A named violet in that handbook, not a florist catalog dump and not iris as the rhizome drug already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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