different between verdigris vs petina

English

Etymology

From French vert-de-gris.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?.d?.??is/, /?v?.d?.???s/

Noun

verdigris (countable and uncountable, plural verdigrises)

1. A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 13

     Let's to the museum. Cannon-balls, arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.

2. (chemistry, dated) Copper acetate.
3. The colour of this patina or material.

Synonyms

• (blue-green copper rust or patina): aerugo
• (copper acetate): Spanish green
• (color): Spanish green

Related terms

• verdigrisy

Translations

Verb

verdigris (third-person singular simple present verdigrises, present participle verdigrising, simple past and past participle verdigrised)

1. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.

   An old verdigrised brass bugle. — Hawthorne.

See also

• verdigris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?tina/
• Hyphenation: pe?ti?na

Noun

pètina f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. one fifth

Declension