verdigris

English

The copper roof of a water tower in Denmark, green with verdigris.

Doors with verdigris at RuhrCongress Bochum, a conference center in Bochum, Germany.

A Chinese coin with verdigris.

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French vert-de-gris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/, /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹɪs/

Noun

verdigris (countable and uncountable, plural verdigrises)

1. A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 13

     Let's to the museum. Cannon-balls, arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.

2. (chemistry, dated) Copper acetate.
3. The colour of this patina or material.

   verdigris:  

   • 1735, [John Barrow], “GREENS”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. [...], volume I, London: Printed for C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis in Pater-noster Row, and S[amuel] Austen in St. Paul's Church-Yard, →OCLC:

     Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a fine graſs Green.

Synonyms

• (blue-green copper rust or patina): aerugo
• (copper acetate): Spanish green
• (color): Spanish green

Related terms

• verdigrisy

Translations

blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys

• Assamese: কঁহ (kõh)
• Basque: gardinga
• Breton: mergl-kouevr m
• Catalan: verdet (ca) m
• Czech: měděnka f
• Danish: ir (da) c
• Dutch: groenspaan (nl) f
• Esperanto: verdigro
• Faroese: eirdømi n, árdømi n, eiring f
• Finnish: patina (fi)
• French: vert-de-gris (fr) m
• German: Grünspan (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἰός χαλκοῦ m (iós khalkoû), ἰός m (iós)

• Icelandic: spanskgræna f, eirgræna f, spansgræna f
• Ido: verdigriso (io)
• Irish: glasar m
• Italian: verderame (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 緑青 (rokushō)
• Khmer: ច្រែះ (km) (creh)
• Korean: 녹청 (ko) (nokcheong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژەنگ (jeng)

• Latin: aerūgō f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: irr n, eir n

  Nynorsk: eir n

• Polish: grynszpan (pl) m
• Portuguese: azinhavre m
• Russian: ярь-медя́нка (ru) f (jarʹ-medjánka), медя́нка (ru) f (medjánka)
• Slovak: medenka f
• Spanish: cardenillo m
• Swedish: ärg (sv) c
• Tagalog: taeng-tanso, taing-tanso
• Telugu: కిలము (te) (kilamu)
• Walloon: vert-di-gris m

copper acetate

• Polish: grynszpan (pl) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

color

• Catalan: verdet (ca) m
• Classical Nahuatl: quilpālli
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 緑青色 (rokushōiro)
• Polish: grynszpan (pl) m

Verb

verdigris (third-person singular simple present verdigrises, present participle verdigrising, simple past and past participle verdigrised)

1. To cover, or coat, with verdigris.

   An old verdigrised brass bugle. — Hawthorne.

See also

• verdigris on Wikipedia.Wikipedia