citrine
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See also: Citrine
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French citrin, from Latin citrus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹin/, /ˈsɪtɹən/, /ˈsɪtɹain/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹiːn/, /ˈsɪtɹin/
- Rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn, (General American) -ɪtɹən
- Homophones: Citroën (UK), citron (General American)
Noun[edit]
citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)
- A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
- citrine:
- 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:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
- A brownish-yellow quartz.
Translations[edit]
goldish-yellow colour
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brownish-yellow quartz
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Adjective[edit]
citrine (not comparable)
- Of a goldish-yellow colour.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:
- The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
of a goldish-yellow colour
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
citrine f (plural citrines)
Further reading[edit]
- “citrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
citrine
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
citrīne
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
citrine (plural citrines)
- citron (Citrus medica)
- orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
- brownish-yellow (colour)
- sallow, having yellowish skin
Descendants[edit]
- English: citrine
References[edit]
- “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “citrīne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective[edit]
citrine
Descendants[edit]
- English: citrine
References[edit]
- “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also[edit]
whit | grey, hor | blak |
red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
grasgrene | grene | |
plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
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