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chrysoprase en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈkɹɪsəˌpɹeɪz/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρῡσόπρασος (khrūsóprasos).

Meanings

1. A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
   • 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, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson:
   • With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase 1911, George Sterling, Duandon:
   • […]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…] 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:

Forms

Translations (44)

bcl krisoprasa (variety of quartz) · io hrizoprazo (variety of quartz) · br krizopraz (variety of quartz) · es crisoprasa (variety of quartz) · sw krisopraso (variety of quartz) · ca crisoprasi (variety of quartz) · ru хризопра́з (variety of quartz) · pt crisoprásio (variety of quartz) · chr ᏟᏌᏇᏌ (variety of quartz) · hu krizopráz (variety of quartz) · tr krizopras (variety of quartz) · nl chrysopraas (variety of quartz) · niu kirisopirēsi (variety of quartz) · gl crisoprasa (variety of quartz) · hy խրիզոպրազ (variety of quartz) · pt crisopraso (variety of quartz) · cmn 綠玉髓 /绿玉髓 (variety of quartz) · it crisopraso (variety of quartz) · pl chryzopraz (variety of quartz) · et krüsopraas (variety of quartz) · tl krisopasyo (variety of quartz) · ca crisopras (variety of quartz) · eo krizopraso (variety of quartz) · it crisopazio (variety of quartz) · mn хризопраз (variety of quartz) · fi krysopraasi (variety of quartz) · da chrysopras (variety of quartz) · lt chrizoprazas (variety of quartz) · lv hrizoprāzs (variety of quartz) · id krisopras (variety of quartz) · ka ხრიზოპრაზი (variety of quartz) · ko 녹옥수 (variety of quartz) · sv chrysopras (variety of quartz) · da krysopras (variety of quartz) · bg хризопра́з (variety of quartz) · grc χρυσόπρασος (variety of quartz) · eo ĥrizoprazo (variety of quartz) · mi karihoparaha (variety of quartz) · fr chrysoprase (variety of quartz) · de Chrysopras (variety of quartz) · cy crysopras (variety of quartz) · sv krysopras (variety of quartz) · it crisoprasio (variety of quartz) · ko 크리소프레이즈 (variety of quartz)