Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, from the paint color name (1862), from Latin virid-, stem of viridis "green, blooming, vigorous" (see verdure) + -ian.
Wiktionary
a. (label en colour) of a bluish green colour. n. 1 a bluish green pigment made from a form of chromic oxide 2 (label en color) a bluish green color.
Wikipedia
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Viridian as a tertiary color on the RYB color wheelViridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed more of green than blue. Specifically, it is a dark shade of spring green, the color between green and cyan on the color wheel, or, in paint, a tertiary blue–green color. Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green".
The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s (exact year uncertain).
Viridian may refer to:
- Viridian, a blue-green pigment
- Viridian Green Laser Sights, a manufacturer of laser sights for firearms
- The Viridian design movement
- Viridian, the codename for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor
- Viridian Group, a Northern Ireland-based energy business
- Viridian (album), by The Greencards (released in 2007)
- "Viridian," a song by Between the Buried and Me on their 2007 album Colors
- Captain Viridian, one of the main character of the video game VVVVVV
- Viridian, a strata complex in the suburb of Kingston in the Australian Capital Territory
- Viridian (subdivision), a future subdivision to be located in Arlington, Texas
- Viridian Elementary School, a future elementary school in Arlington, Texas
- Viridian (company), a clean energy, renewable energy company based in Stamford, Connecticut
Viridian is a 2007 studio album by the Austin, Texas bluegrass band The Greencards. Their third Dualtone Records studio album, it was released on March 6, 2007.
Usage examples of "viridian".
Most prominent was the viridian green of the Fleet, along with the gray jackets of the Urban Patrol and the black and yellow of the Motor Patrol.
Sula peered over the wall and looked down the Boulevard of the Praxis: she saw Judge Makish and his guards, and accompanying them an officer in the viridian green of the Fleet.
The sun was low in the viridian sky and the heat rose in waves, but the Textile Market was still thronged.
These were trucks painted in the viridian green of the Fleet, the same model of Sun Ray the Fleet used, and they would arrive just ahead of the time the Naxids would expect a pair of trucks bringing their relief.
On they came, better organized this time, with Fleet security forces in the lead in viridian armor, scuttling up the steep slope as fast as their four legs could carry them.
Spence and Macnamara in viridian green, the Masquers in their strange white costumes with their tufted ears.
Kringan, wearing braid-spangled viridian shorts and a vest over his gray fur, chatted amiably in his adjoining office with a group of senior officers.
He was out of his body cast and dressed in a viridian dress uniform covered with more silver braid than Martinez had ever seen.
Sula gazed out the ports and watched the sky turn from black to viridian green.
Hall of Ceremony, braced at attention in her new viridian full-dress uniform.
The message featured Squadron Commander Chen sitting in her office, wearing her viridian dress uniform and gazing at the camera with solemn eyes.
Those yellow-and-black uniforms were now being reinforced by others in viridian Fleet body armor.
Strange that she and Reanna should have become such fast friends from the very moment she had entered the gates of Viridian Manor.
As they rode through the lands belonging to Viridian Manor, there were workers out harvesting the last of the nuts, cutting deadfall, herding sheep and cattle into their winter pastures, mostly singing as they worked.
If so, then this was precisely what the Countess Vrenable of Viridian Manor wished to find out.