chrysoprase

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪsəˌpɹeɪz/

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Noun

chrysoprase (plural chrysoprases)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
   • 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79:

     […] or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase, […]

   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson‎^[1]:

     On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.

   • 1911, George Sterling, Duandon‎^[2]:

     With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze
     Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase

Translations

variety of quartz

• Armenian: խրիզոպրազ (xrizopraz)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: krisoprasa

• Breton: krizopraz
• Bulgarian: хризопра́з m (hrizopráz)
• Catalan: crisopras m, crisoprasi m
• Cherokee: ᏟᏌᏇᏌ (tlisaquesa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 綠玉髓 / 绿玉髓 (zh) (lǜyùsuǐ)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: krysopras, chrysopras
• Dutch: chrysopraas m
• Esperanto: krizopraso, ĥrizoprazo
• Estonian: krüsopraas
• Finnish: krysopraasi (fi)
• French: chrysoprase (fr) f
• Galician: crisoprasa f
• Georgian: ხრიზოპრაზი (xrizoṗrazi)
• German: Chrysopras m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χρυσόπρασος m (khrusóprasos)

• Hungarian: krizopráz (hu)
• Ido: hrizoprazo
• Indonesian: krisopras (id)
• Italian: crisoprasio m, crisopraso m, crisopazio m
• Korean: 녹옥수(綠玉髓) (nogoksu), 크리소프레이즈 (keurisopeureijeu)
• Latvian: hrizoprāzs m
• Lithuanian: chrizoprazas m
• Māori: karihoparaha
• Mongolian: хризопраз (mn) (xrizopraz)
• Niuean: kirisopirēsi
• Polish: chryzopraz (pl) m
• Portuguese: crisoprásio m, crisopraso m
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: хризопра́з (ru) m (xrizopráz)
• Spanish: crisoprasa f
• Swahili: krisopraso
• Swedish: krysopras, chrysopras
• Tagalog: krisopasyo
• Turkish: krizopras
• Welsh: crysopras m

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Chrysoprase”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “chrysoprase”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.zɔ.pʁaz/

Noun

chrysoprase f (plural chrysoprases)

1. chrysoprase

Further reading

• “chrysoprase”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012