Etymology

safranin

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Today it means: safranine Full definition →

French safranine
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  1. French · borrowed fromsafranine
  2. English todaysafranin

From French safranine, from French safran (“saffron”) and -ine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.