Etymology

antigreen

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Today it means: One of the three possible colours of an antiquark, corresponding to green in a quark. Full definition →

English green ← Middle English grene ← Old English grēne
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The story

  1. Englishanti-
  2. Proto-Germanic*grōniz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*grōnī
  4. Old Englishgrēne
  5. Middle Englishgrene
  6. Englishgreen
  7. English todayantigreen

From anti- + green.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.