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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

English

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?smæ?æ?d/, /sm???æ?d/
• Rhymes: -æ?d

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragds)

1. (obsolete) An emerald.

Synonyms

• emerald

Related terms

• smaragdine

Anagrams

• dagmars

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?smarakt]

Noun

smaragd m

1. emerald

Derived terms

• smaragdový

Further reading

• smaragd in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• smaragd in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From late Old Norse smaragdr, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaravd/, [sm????w?d?]

Noun

smaragd c (singular definite smaragden, plural indefinite smaragder)

1. emerald

Declension

References

• “smaragd” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sma??r?xt/
• Hyphenation: sma?ragd
• Rhymes: -?xt

Noun

smaragd m (plural smaragden, diminutive smaragdje n)

1. emerald

Derived terms

• smaragden (“emeralden”)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: smarag

References

• “smaragd” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Estonian

Noun

smaragd (genitive smaragdi, partitive smaragdi)

1. (mineralogy) emerald

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• smaragd in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m?r??d]
• Hyphenation: sma?ragd
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragdok)

1. emerald

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• smaragd in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sma.?ra?d/, [sm?.????d]

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragder, definite plural smaragdene)

1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

Derived terms

• smaragdgrønn

References

• “smaragd” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), ???????? (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragdar, definite plural smaragdane)

1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

Derived terms

• smaragdgrøn

References

• “smaragd” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• smarald, smarand (regional)

Etymology

From Greek ???????? (smarágdi). Compare the variant smarald.

Noun

smaragd n (plural smaragde)

1. Alternative form of smarald- emerald

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Smaragd, from Ancient Greek ????????? (smáragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?ra?d/
• Hyphenation: sma?ragd

Noun

smàragd m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. emerald

Declension

References

• “smaragd” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

smaragd c

1. emerald (gemstone)

Declension