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sapphire
English
Etymology
From Middle English saphir, from Old French saphir, from Latin sapphir, sappir, sapph?rus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sáppheiros, “precious stone, gem”), from a Semitic language (compare Hebrew ???????? (sapp??r)), perhaps ultimately from a non-Semitic source such as Sanskrit ???????? (?anipriya, “dark-colored stone”, literally “dear to Saturn”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?sæf.a???(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?sæf.a???/
- Hyphenation: sap?phire
Noun
sapphire (countable and uncountable, plural sapphires)
- (countable) A clear deep blue variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
- (countable and uncountable) A white, yellow, or purple variety of corundum, either clear or translucent.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep blue colour.
- (countable) Any hummingbird in the genera Hylocharis and Chlorestes, as well as the rufous-throated sapphire, which is now in the genus Amazilia.
- Any of the butterflies in the southern Asian lycaenid genus Heliophorus.
Derived terms
Related terms
- corundum
Translations
Adjective
sapphire (comparative more sapphire, superlative most sapphire)
- of a deep blue colour.
- pertaining to a 45th year
Derived terms
(45 years):
- sapphire anniversary
- sapphire jubilee
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)
- Sapphire
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Sapphire”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
- “sapphire”, in Mindat.org?[2], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
Anagrams
- paperish, papisher
Latin
Noun
sapph?re f
- vocative singular of sapph?rus
References
- sapphire in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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