different between vitrine vs citrine

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /v??t?i?n/, /v??t?i?n/

Noun

vitrine (plural vitrines)

1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.

   Synonyms: showcase, display case

   • 1896, Edward L. Wilson (ed.), "The Review of the Year Past", Photographic Mosaics, page 82

     Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.

   • 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256

     The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo […]

Related terms

• vitreous

Translations

Further reading

• Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• inviter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?tri.n?/
• Hyphenation: vi?tri?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)

1. vitrine, showcase
2. shop window

Related terms

• vitrage
• vitriool

French

Etymology

From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). Synchronically, from vitre (“pane of glass”) +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.t?in/

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window

   Synonym: devanture

2. (by extension) shopping

3. vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)

Derived terms

• lèche-vitrine

Related terms

• vitrail

Descendants

Further reading

• “vitrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• inviter

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vitrina

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)

   Synonym: montra

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.

See also