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smaragdine

English

Etymology

From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (smáragdinos), from ????????? (smáragdos). See emerald for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sm???æ?di?n/
  • Rhymes: -æ?di?n
  • Hyphenation: sma?rag?dine

Noun

smaragdine (uncountable)

  1. Emerald.
    • 1814, Diodorus Siculus, G. Booth (translator), The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, Volume 1, page 143,
      The smaragdine and beryl, (as they are called), which are found in the copper-mines, are said to have their colour from their mixture with sulphur: and that the chrysolite, produced by the heat of thesun, receives its tincture from a hot and fiery exhalation.
    • 1833, John Brown, Stones, entry in A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, page 484,
      [] others green, as the emerald, smaragdine, and beryl; others bluish, as the sapphire and turquois; others purple-coloured, as the amethyst.
    • 1997, H. Stanley Redgrove, Alchemy Ancient and Modern, Facsimile Reprint, page 40,
      In a work attributed to Albertus Magnus, but which is probably spurious, we are told that Alexander the Great found the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron. This tomb contained an emerald table — “The Smaragdine Table? — on which were inscribed the following thirteen sentences in Phœnician characters: —

Translations

Adjective

smaragdine (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to emeralds.
  2. Having the colour of emeralds.
    • 1882, "Outside the Cars", Toledo Blade, 29 June 1882:
      Not even inspired vision ever saw sweeter fields arrayed in living green than these spangled meads which stretch out for miles on either side, and probably lead to "rivers of delight" just beyond those massive banks of beech and oaken and maple foliage, which frame the view in smaragdine opulence.
    • 1900, Frederick Rolfe, In His Own Image, John Lane (1900), pages 323-324:
      Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm.
    • 1999, Lynda Barry, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Simon & Schuster (1999), ?ISBN, pages 154-155:
      [] We will get the Hillbilly Woman very very high and she will lead us over the smaragdine mountain to a quiet pool where the Violent One awaits you."
    • 2007, Brite Templeton, Under Aldebaran, AuthorHouse (2007), ?ISBN, page 27:
      She did not squint not as the sun crept through the Venetian blinds and seemed to ignite her already-luminous smaragdine eyes.

Related terms

  • smaragd

Translations


Latin

Adjective

smaragd?ne

  1. vocative masculine singular of smaragd?nus

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emerald

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.

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