mintgrön

See also: mintgrøn

Swedish

Etymology

Perhaps a (partial) calque of English mint green, from mint +‎ grön (“green”). Mint normally refers to (a substance with) mint flavor (the plant is mynta). "Myntgrön" could be misread as "coin green" (see mynt (“coin”)), so perhaps avoided for that reason.

Adjective

mintgrön (comparative mer mintgrön, superlative mest mintgrön)

  1. mint green

Declension

Inflection of mintgrön
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular mintgrön mer mintgrön mest mintgrön
neuter singular mintgrönt mer mintgrönt mest mintgrönt
plural mintgröna mer mintgröna mest mintgröna
masculine plural2 mintgröne mer mintgröna mest mintgröna
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 mintgröne mer mintgröne mest mintgröne
all mintgröna mer mintgröna mest mintgröna

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)
     vit      grå      svart
             röd; karmosin, karmosinröd, blodröd              orange (common), brandgul (now uncommon); brun              gul; beige
             limegrön              grön              mintgrön
             turkos (common), cyan (rare); blågrön, teal              himmelsblå, azur              blå
             lila, violett, gredelin (light lavender, now uncommon); indigo              magenta; purpur              rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

References

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