different between aventurine vs citrine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aventurine, from Italian avventurino, from avventurare (“to venture; to make lucky or prosperous”), from avventura (“chance; adventure, venture”) + -are (suffix forming the infinitive of most regular verbs), apparently so named because it was discovered by accident in Murano, Italy, when brass or copper filings were dropped into melted glass (see, however, the 1843 quotation).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-tj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-i?n/
• Hyphenation: aven?tur?ine

Noun

aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)

1. A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.

   Synonym: goldstone
2. (mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Alternative forms

• avanturine
• aventurin

Derived terms

• aventurescence
• aventurization

Translations

See also

• sunstone

References

Further reading

• aventurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aventurine”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Avanturine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Anagrams

• uninervate

French

Etymology

From aventure +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.ty.?in/

Noun

aventurine f (plural aventurines)

1. aventurine

Further reading

• “aventurine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• citrean
• citrinous

Etymology

From French citrin, from Latin citrus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?t?in/, /?s?t??n/, /?s?t?ain/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?t?i?n/, /?s?t?in/

Noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

1. A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
   • 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […]

     […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]

   • c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242:

     dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ?elou? colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & li?t red tokeneþ mene.

2. A brownish-yellow quartz.

Translations

Adjective

citrine (not comparable)

1. Of a goldish-yellow colour.

Translations

See also

• false topaz
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• citiner, crinite, inciter, neritic, retinic, tricine

French

Noun

citrine f (plural citrines)

1. citrine

Further reading

• “citrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

citrine

1. feminine plural of citrino

Anagrams

• cretini, incerti, recinti, ricinte

Latin

Adjective

citr?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of citr?nus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• citryn, sitrine, citherin, citryne, cytryne, citrin

Etymology

Medieval Latin citr?nus.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /tsit(?)?ri?n?/
• IPA^(key): /sit(?)?ri?n(?)/

Noun

citrine (plural citrines)

1. citron (Citrus medica)
2. orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
3. brownish-yellow (colour)
4. sallow, having yellowish skin

Descendants

• English: citrine

References

• “citr?n(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
• “citr?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Adjective

citrine

1. orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
2. brownish-yellow (colour)
3. sallow, having yellowish skin

Descendants

• English: citrine

References

• “citr?n(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also