different between aquamarine vs emerald

English

Etymology

From Latin aqua mar?na (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ.kw?.m???i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.

2. A bluish-green variety of beryl.

Translations

Adjective

aquamarine (not comparable)

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

Translations

Derived terms

• Madagascar aquamarine

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Aquamarine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “aquamarine”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

German

Adjective

aquamarine

1. inflection of aquamarin:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

English

Etymology

From Middle English emeraude, borrowed from Old French esmeraude, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language. Compare Hebrew ????????? (bareket, “emerald, flashing gem”), Akkadian ???????????? (baraqu, literally “scintillation”), Arabic ?????? (barq, literally “flashing”), Egyptian bwyrq? (literally “to sparkle”):

and loanwords with Semitic etymon such as Sanskrit ???? (marakata) and Persian ????? (zomorrod) (whence Turkish zümrüt and Russian ???????? (izumrúd)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m(?)??ld/

Noun

emerald (countable and uncountable, plural emeralds)

1. Any of various green gemstones, especially a green transparent form of beryl, highly valued as a precious stone.
2. Emerald green, a colour.

3. Any hummingbird in the genera Chlorostilbon and Elvira; and some in the genus Amazilia
4. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the family Corduliidae.
5. (dated, printing, Britain) A size of type between nonpareil and minion, standardized as 6½-point.

Synonyms

• (gemstone): smaragd (obsolete)
• (type size, US): minionette

Translations

Derived terms

Adjective

emerald (comparative more emerald, superlative most emerald)

1. Of a rich green colour.
   • 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour

     The insect-queen of eastern spring, / O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer / Invites the young pursuer near, / And leads him on from flower to flower / A weary chase and wasted hour.

Translations

Verb

emerald (third-person singular simple present emeralds, present participle emeralding, simple past and past participle emeralded)

1. (transitive, poetic) To ornament with, or as if with, emeralds; to make green.

Related terms

• smaragd
• smaragdine

See also

• beryl

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Emerald”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “emerald”, in Mindat.org?^[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.