smaragdus

Latin

Alternative forms

• zmaragdus
• smaragdos, zmaragdos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σμᾰ́ρᾰγδος (smắrăgdos), itself from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [smaˈraɡ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [zmaˈraɡ.dus]

Noun

smaragdus m or f (genitive smaragdī); second declension

1. emerald

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	smaragdus	smaragdī
genitive	smaragdī	smaragdōrum
dative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
accusative	smaragdum	smaragdōs
ablative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
vocative	smaragde	smaragdī

Related terms

• smaragdachātēs
• smaragdina
• smaragdine
• smaragdineus
• smaragdinus
• Smaragdītes
• smaragdo

Descendants

• Aragonese: esmeralda
• Asturian: esmeralda
• Catalan: maragda, esmaragda
• → Czech: smaragd
• → Danish: smaragd
• → Dutch: smaragd
• → English: smaragd
• → Estonian: smaragd
• Old French: esmeraude, esmeralde
  • French: émeraude
  • → Middle English: emeraude
    • English: emerald
      • → Japanese: エメラルド (emerarudo)
      • → Korean: 에메랄드 (emeraldeu)
      • → Welsh: emrald, emrallt
  • → Old Spanish: esmeralda
    • Spanish: esmeralda
      • → Tagalog: esmeralda

References

• “smăragdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “smaragdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “smăragdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• smaragdus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• "smaragdus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

smaragdus m

1. accusative plural of smaragds