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color violeta o violeto?

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Nuestro profesor ha dicho que un color derivado de una flor, como violeta, permanece violeata en el masculino. Es verdad?

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updated Nov 14, 2009
posted by Siggaard

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This can be very confusing in situations where you omit the noun and use it as an adjective. By example:

¿Cuál es la casa de Pedro? Es la violeta.

¿Cuál de los dos es tu auto? Es el violeta.

In both cases "violeta" acts as an adjective, and the article matches the gender of the omitted noun in the answer.

updated Nov 13, 2009
edited by 00e657d4
posted by 00e657d4
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Hi siggard, WR and your book are wrong, if the bible lists the word....

violeto.

(De violeta, por el color morado del fruto).

  1. m. peladillo (? árbol).

  2. m. Fruto de este árbol.

updated Nov 14, 2009
posted by 00494d19
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Interestingly, it appears that the word violeto is something completely different! smile Well, who'd o' thunk it!

updated Nov 14, 2009
posted by chaparrito
Mi diccionario (Fucilla, Bantam Books, New York, 1943) no tiene la palabra violeto y WordReference.com tampoco. - Siggaard, Nov 14, 2009
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Maybe this will help :

violet 1. violeta (f) (plant); violeta (m) (color) adjetivo también:

* violet(-colored) -> (de color) violeta 

I think that it retains the masculine because the color, violet, is being used as a noun and the color 'violet' is masculine as seen above.

updated Nov 13, 2009
edited by sunshinzmommie
posted by sunshinzmommie
Entonces hay un error en la lección 3.7. - Siggaard, Nov 13, 2009
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Creo que es Violeta.

hmmm

updated Nov 13, 2009
posted by Seb79