Dictionary

citrine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪtɹin/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɪtɹin/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsɪtɹain/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɪtɹiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪtɹən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of a goldish-yellow colour.
   • The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal. 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:

Forms

Deriveds

citrine wagtail · citrine ointment

Relateds

false topaz

Translations (3)

ga ciotrónach (of a goldish-yellow colour) · uk цитри́новий (of a goldish-yellow colour) · fi sitriininkeltainen (of a goldish-yellow colour)

citrine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsɪtɹin/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɪtɹin/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈsɪtɹain/ (General-American)
• /ˈsɪtɹiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /ˈsɪtɹən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
   • […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […] 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :
   • dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene. c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242
   • From above and behind his head, there came a bumblebee as big as his thumb. It circled his ear, then hovered by the rock, probing the nodes of citrine, which were the same bright yellow as the fieldstars that bloomed among the hills. 2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 69:
2. (countable, uncountable) A brownish-yellow quartz.

Forms

Deriveds

ametrine · citrination

Translations (22)

ja 黄水晶 (brownish-yellow quartz) · ja シトリン (brownish-yellow quartz) · fi sitriini (brownish-yellow quartz) · de Citrin (brownish-yellow quartz) · cy sitrin (brownish-yellow quartz) · es citrino (brownish-yellow quartz) · ga citrín (brownish-yellow quartz) · it citrino (brownish-yellow quartz) · ca citrina (brownish-yellow quartz) · ga tópás bréige (brownish-yellow quartz) · cmn 黃水晶 /黄水晶 (brownish-yellow quartz) · yue 黃水晶 /黄水晶 (brownish-yellow quartz) · pl cytryn (brownish-yellow quartz) · nl citrien (brownish-yellow quartz) · fi sitriininkeltainen (goldish-yellow colour) · ru фальши́вый топа́з (brownish-yellow quartz) · ga ciotrónach (goldish-yellow colour) · fr citrine (brownish-yellow quartz) · pt citrino (brownish-yellow quartz) · uk цитри́н (brownish-yellow quartz) · ru цитри́н (brownish-yellow quartz) · be цытры́н (brownish-yellow quartz)