different between azure vs azurine

English

Etymology

From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic ??????????? (l?zaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Persian ??????? (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Turkestan.

Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ??/, /?æzj??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ???/

Noun

azure (countable and uncountable, plural azures)

1. (countable and uncountable) The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
   • 1815, William Wordsworth, Extracts from An Evening Walk

     In robes of azure.

   • 2014, William H. Gass, On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (page 59)

     For our blues we have the azures and ceruleans, lapis lazulis, the light and dusty, the powder blues, the deeps: royal, sapphire, navy, and marine […]

2. (heraldry) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

3. (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
4. Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.
5. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.
6. Lapis lazuli.

Alternative forms

• (blue color on a coat of arms): az., b., bl.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

azure (not comparable)

1. sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky

   Synonym: cerulean

   • 1740, James Thomson, Rule, Britannia!

     When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.

2. cloudless
3. (heraldry) In blazon, of the colour blue.
   • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado

     ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
     ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’

Translations

Verb

azure (third-person singular simple present azures, present participle azuring, simple past and past participle azured)

1. (transitive) To colour blue.
   • 1907, The Sugar Beet (volume 28, page 271)

     Our readers are aware that much of the sugar sold in many countries goes through an azuring treatment; blue is added to granulated sugar with the view of making it appear whiter than it actually is.

Translations

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)}

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.zy?/
• Homophones: azurent, azures

Verb

azure

1. inflection of azurer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Noun

azure m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of azur

English

Adjective

azurine (comparative more azurine, superlative most azurine)

1. Sky-blue; azure.

Noun

azurine (plural azurines)

1. A type of rudd or redeye, the blue roach of Europe (Scardinius erythrophthalmus, syn. Leuciscus caeruleus), so called from its color.

References

• azurine at OneLook Dictionary Search
• azurine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.