DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
magenta
/mə'dʒɛntə/ · mədʒɛntə
Magenta has 3 syllables: ma · gen · ta.
ma
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gen
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ta
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noun. A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I.
noun. A primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta.
adjective. Of deep purplish red.
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