opalescent
English
Etymology
From opal + -escent. First attested in 1813.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
opalescent (comparative more opalescent, superlative most opalescent)
- Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 9:
- Below me, through the opalescent surface, I saw the white ghost of the Cessna.
Translations
exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
opalescent (feminine opalescente, masculine plural opalescents, feminine plural opalescentes)
- opalescent
- 2017, Jeanne Bocquenet-Carle, Que tombent les étoiles
- Dehors, le soleil ne déclinait plus, fixant les heures dans une clarté constante. Dix et seize heures diffusaient la même couleur. En marchant dans la lumière opalescente, elle ressentit un picotement. Un fourmillement qui se répandait sur sa peau et que chaque femme d’Ouessant connaissait bien.
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- 1893, Revue médicale de la Suisse romande, volume 13 page 336
- On procède immédiatement au barbotage dans une solution d’acétate de plomb; il se produit rapidement une opalescence laiteuse par précipitation de carbonate de plomb, puis deux minutes environ après l’injection, le liquide opalescent vire au gris, puis au brun très clair (café au lait).
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- 2017, Jeanne Bocquenet-Carle, Que tombent les étoiles
Derived terms
Further reading
- “opalescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
From French opalescent.
Adjective
opalescent m or n (feminine singular opalescentă, masculine plural opalescenți, feminine and neuter plural opalescente)
Declension
Declension of opalescent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | opalescent | opalescentă | opalescenți | opalescente | ||
definite | opalescentul | opalescenta | opalescenții | opalescentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | opalescent | opalescente | opalescenți | opalescente | ||
definite | opalescentului | opalescentei | opalescenților | opalescentelor |
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