different between garnet vs citrine

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????(?).n?t/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

Noun

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

Derived terms

Related terms

• grenade
• pomegranate

Translations

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Adjective

garnet

1. Of a dark red colour.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Etymology 2

Noun

garnet (plural garnets)

1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out.

Etymology 3

Verb

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)

1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

Anagrams

• Gretna, Tanger, argent, gerant

Cebuano

Etymology

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gar?net

Noun

garnet

1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

Adjective

garnet

1. of a dark red colour

Danish

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

Swedish

Noun

garnet

1. definite singular of garn

Anagrams

• regnat

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.

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