gredelin

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French gridelin.

Adjective[edit]

gredelin (not comparable)

  1. (color, now rare) (bright) lavender
    gredelin:  

Usage notes[edit]

  • The color above is an approximation. Kind of a faded purple.
  • Still fairly well known, mostly from a character "tant Gredelin" ("Aunt Lavender" in the English translation) appearing in a series of storybooks by Elsa Beskow.

Declension[edit]

Inflection of gredelin
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular gredelin
Neuter singular gredelint
Plural gredelina
Masculine plural3 gredeline
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 gredeline
All gredelina
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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