different between emerald vs smaragdus

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.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), itself from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sma?ra?.dus/, [s?mä??ä?d??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sma?ra?.dus/, [zm?????d?us]

Noun

smaragdus m (genitive smaragd?); second declension

1. emerald

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• smaragd?nus

Descendants

References

• smaragdus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• smaragdus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• smaragdus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• smaragdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Latvian

Noun

smaragdus m

1. accusative plural form of smaragds