smeraldino

Italian

FWOTD – 20 November 2015

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin smaragdīnus.
Surface analysis: smeraldo (“emerald”) +‎ -ino (“-ine”, derivational suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sme.ralˈdi.no/, [z̪mer̺äl̺ˈd̪iːn̺o]
• Rhymes: -ino
• Hyphenation: sme‧ral‧dì‧no

Adjective

1. (archaic) made out of emerald
   • 1946, Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, Il giardino del Cristo ferito, Arkeios, page 190:

     […] , fu mostrato il ricco vaso smeraldino, […]

     […] , he was shown the rich emerald vase, […]

2. (dated) emerald green; emerald-like in colour
   • 1903, Giovanni Pascoli, Myricae, Raffaello Giusti (1903), page 86, “Il miracolo”:

     Vedeste l'erba lucido tappeto, ¶ e su le pietre il musco smeraldino; [...]

     You saw the grass as shiny carpet, ¶ and on the stones the emerald-green musk; [...]