verdigris

English

Etymology

From french vert-de-gris.

Noun

verdigris (countable and uncountable; plural verdigrises)

1. A blue-green patina 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

• (copper acetate): Spanish green

Translations

blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys

• Danish: ir (da) c
• Esperanto: verdigro (eo)
• Faroese: eirdømi (fo) n, árdømi (fo) n, eiring (fo) f
• Finnish: patina (fi)
• French: vert-de-gris (fr) m
• German: Grünspan (de) m
• Icelandic: spanskgræna (is) f, eirgræna (is) f, spansgræna (is) f
• Italian: verderame (it) m

• Japanese: 緑青 (ja) (rokushō)
• Korean: 녹청 (ko) (nokcheong)
• Latin: aerugo (la)
• Portuguese: azinhavre (pt)
• Russian: ярь-медянка (ru) (jar'-medjánka) f 
• Spanish: cardenillo (es)
• Swedish: ärg (sv)

copper acetate

color

• Japanese: 緑青色 (ja) (rokushōiro)

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