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Definition: Sienna |
SiennaNoun1. An earth color containing ferric oxides; used as a pigment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Sienna" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a red-orange color". |
Date "sienna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Sienna \Si*en"na\, noun. [Italian terra di Siena, from Siena in Italy.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Earth colour. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A brownish orange-yellow clay colored by iron and manganese oxides; used as a pigment.b. See:mineral paint. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sienna is a form of limonite clay most famous in the production of oil paint pigments. Its yellow-brown colour comes from ferric oxides contained within. As a natural pigment, it (along with its chemical cousins ochre and umber) was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings.Sienna, in and of itself, is sometimes referred to as "raw sienna", in order to differentiate it from "burnt sienna", which is a more common pigment than the raw form. The difference is in the process applied to burnt sienna, which is raw sienna heated to remove the water from the clay and redden its brownish colour.
The name derives from the most notable Renaissance location for the earth, Siena, Italy, and is short for terra di Sienna, "earth of Sienna". The mines used to produce this sienna petered out in the 1940s. Much of today's sienna production is still in Italy's offshore islands, Sardinia and Sicily, while other major deposits are found in the Appalachian Mountains, where it often goes hand-in-hand with the region's iron deposits.
Many of these deposits date back to the Precambrian, and are pointed to as evidence of the Snowball Earth hypothesis.
See:
See also Siena
- SIENNA Technologies
- Sienna Plantation, Missouri
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sienna."
Crosswords: Sienna |
| English words defined with "sienna": Burnt sienna ♦ raw sienna ♦ Siennese ♦ Terra di Sienna. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sienna": Improvisators ♦ pigment mineral. (references) |
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| "Contrado, Sienna" by Sam Segar Commentary: "Contrada Parade in Piazza del Campo." | "Bored in Sienna, Italy" by Liam Heffernan Commentary: "Just spotted it hanging there." |
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Health | Situation - Ebola-Reston virus was introduced into quarantine facilities in Sienna by monkeys imported from the same export facility in the Philippines that was involved in the episodes in the United States. (references) | |
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| "Sienna" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.76% of the time. "Sienna" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75.76% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 24.24% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Sienna" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a red-orange color". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Sienna." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Siena | Female | N/A | N/A |
| Sienna | Female | N/A | Siena |
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Expressions using "sienna": Burnt sienna ♦ Italian sienna ♦ raw sienna ♦ Terra di Sienna. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sienna": sienna-coloured. | |
Ending with "sienna": Burnt-sienna. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
miller sienna | 1,546 | new toyota sienna | 22 |
toyota sienna | 914 | new sienna | 22 |
2004 toyota sienna | 224 | toyota sienna for sale | 22 |
sienna | 213 | buy toyota sienna | 21 |
sienna guillory | 127 | miller photo sienna | 21 |
miller nude sienna | 75 | buy sienna | 20 |
2004 sienna | 71 | used sienna | 20 |
sienna plantation | 68 | burnt sienna | 20 |
miller picture sienna | 64 | sienna hotel | 20 |
miller pic sienna | 60 | toyota sienna part | 19 |
sienna italy | 54 | bargain toyota sienna | 19 |
toyota sienna used | 51 | bargain sienna | 19 |
miller rose sienna | 46 | guillory nude sienna | 18 |
2004 toyota sienna review | 39 | chapel hill hotel sienna | 17 |
2003 toyota sienna | 37 | toyota sienna 2000 | 15 |
toyota sienna review | 29 | sienna heights university | 12 |
sienna college | 29 | sienna heights | 12 |
toyota sienna accessory | 25 | miller naked sienna | 12 |
2004 review sienna | 23 | catherine sienna st | 12 |
sienna for sale | 23 | recall sienna toyota | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "sienna"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bojë e verdheme. (various references) | |
Arabic | إقامة متواصلة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сиенска пръст, сиена, вид охра. (various references) | |
Czech | oranžovožlutá barva. (various references) | |
Danish | sienna, terra di Siena (Italian sienna), italiensk Siena (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
Dutch | sienna-aarde (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
French | terre de Sienne (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
German | sienaerde, Siena/erde (Italian sienna), Terra di Sienna, ockergelb (ocher, ochre), italienische Erde (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
Greek | γαία της Ιταλίας (Italian sienna), γαία της Σιέννας (Italian sienna), χώμα σιένησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vörösbarna festék. (various references) | |
Italian | terra di siena (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iennasay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | terra-de-siena, terra de Siena (Italian sienna), terra de Itália (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
Russian | сиена. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sijena boja, siena. (various references) | |
Spanish | tierra de Siena (Italian sienna). (various references) | |
Thai | ดินเผา. (various references) | |
Turkish | koyu kahverengi (chocolate, dark brown, umber). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сієна, вохра (ocher, ochre). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | màu hung đỏ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Italian | 900-Modern | terra di Sienna. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sienna": siennas. (additional references) | |
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"Sienna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cienna, Saena, Saenaua, Scienza, seina, seinna, Sennan, Sennar, Sennas, senno, shanna, Shienza, Shilena, Siann, sien, siena, sienal, siene, siennas, Sienne, sient, sileni, sinma, Sinna, sinni, Sisenand, skena, syenne, synn, Tienan, Zeena. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sienna" (pronounced sēe"nu) |
| 3 | -e" n u | antenna, bene, henna, Penna, Senna. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inanes, insane. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: anise, inane, nines, senna. | |
-2 letters: ains, anes, anis, inns, nans, nine, sain, sane, sine. | |
-3 letters: ain, ais, ane, ani, ens, inn, ins, nae, nan, sae, sea, sei, sen, sin. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, an, as, en, es, in, is, na, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: asinine, canines, encinas, fannies, inanest, insaner, insnare, nancies, nannies, siennas, stanine. | |
+2 letters: adenines, aginners, alanines, ancients, aneurins, anginose, anilines, annelids, anserine, antigens, canniest, canonise, crannies, cyanines, eanlings, earnings, enamines, enations, encasing, enchains, engrains, entrains, fanzines, finances, gentians, grannies, guanines, infantes, insanely, insanest, insectan, insnared, insnarer, insnares, instance, leanings, lindanes, linesman, mannites, meanings, melanins, narceins, nuisance, panniers, pinnaces, raisonne, reinsman, sanguine, saponine, shannies, sirenian, sneaking, sneaping, solanine, sonatine, speaning, stanines, stannite, vainness, zaniness. | |
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