different between citrine vs topaz

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

English

Etymology

From Old French topace (compare French topaze), from the Ancient Greek proper noun ???????? (Topázios), ancient name of St. John's Island, Egypt, in the Red Sea, believed to be the first discovered source of the mineral ???????? (topázion, “peridot”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??pæz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?to?pæz/

Noun

topaz (usually uncountable, plural topazes)

1. A silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities.
2. An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut from this.
3. A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

4. (historical, British India) A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.

Descendants

• ? Welsh: topas

Translations

Adjective

topaz

1. Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Colors
• Killiecrankie diamond

Further reading

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?topas]

Noun

topaz m

1. topaz (clear, yellowish-brown gemstone)

Declension

Derived terms

• topazový

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.pas/

Noun

topaz m inan

1. topaz (gem)

Declension

Derived terms

• topazowy

Further reading

• topaz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French topaze.

Noun

topaz n (plural topaze)

1. topaz

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

topaz f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. topaz (gemstone)