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beryl

English

Etymology

From Old French beril, from Latin b?rillus, b?ryllus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (b?rullos, beryl), from Prakrit ???????? (viral?yate), from Sanskrit ??????? (vai??rya), from Dravidian, probably named after Velur (modern day Belur) in southern India.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b???l/
  • Rhymes: -?r?l

Noun

beryl (countable and uncountable, plural beryls)

  1. (uncountable, mineralogy) A mineral of pegmatite deposits, often used as a gemstone.
  2. (countable) An example (a stone) of the mineral beryl.
    The crown was set with six beryls of excellent size and color.
  3. (uncountable) A dull blueish green colour.

Translations

Adjective

beryl (not comparable)

  1. Of a dull bluish green colour.

Translations

Derived terms

  • beryllium
  • beryllium oxide
  • chrysoberyl

Related terms

  • chrysoprase
  • brilliant

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)
  • aquamarine
  • emerald
  • heliodor
  • Madagascar aquamarine
  • morganite

Anagrams

  • Byler

Cornish

Noun

beryl

  1. Soft mutation of peryl.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?b?r?l]
  • Rhymes: -?r?l

Noun

beryl m

  1. beryl

Derived terms

  • berylový

Further reading

  • beryl in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • beryl in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

beryl c (singular definite beryllen, plural indefinite beryller)

  1. beryl (the mineral and examples of the mineral)

Inflection


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /be?ril/
  • Hyphenation: be?ryl
  • Rhymes: -il

Noun

beryl n (uncountable)

  1. Superseded spelling of beril.

Noun

beryl m (plural beryllen)

  1. Superseded spelling of beril.

Polish


Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?b?.r?l/

Noun

beryl m inan

  1. beryllium (chemical element)

Declension

Further reading

  • beryl in Polish dictionaries at PWN

beryl From the web:

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corundum

English

Etymology

From Tamil ????????? (kuruntam, ruby, sapphire) [early 18th century].

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /k????n.d?m/

Noun

corundum (countable and uncountable, plural corundums)

  1. (mineralogy) An extremely hard mineral, a form of aluminum oxide with the chemical formula Al2O3, that occurs in the form of the gemstones sapphire and ruby; it is used as an abrasive.

Derived terms

  • carborundum

Translations

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Corundum”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
  • “corundum”, in Mindat.org?[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

corundum From the web:

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  • corundum what kind of rock
  • corundum what type of rock
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