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smaragdine en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/

Etymology

From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to emeralds.
2. (not-comparable) Having the colour of emeralds.
   • […] We will get the Hillbilly Woman very very high and she will lead us over the smaragdine mountain to a quiet pool where the Violent One awaits you." 1999, Lynda Barry, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 154–155:
   • Not even inspired vision ever saw sweeter fields arrayed in living green than these spangled meads which stretch out for miles on either side, and probably lead to "rivers of delight" just beyond those massive banks of beech and oaken and maple foliage, which frame the view in smaragdine opulence. 1882 June 29, “Outside the Cars”, in Toledo Blade:
   • Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm. 1900, Frederick Rolfe, In His Own Image, John Lane, pages 323–324:
   • She did not squint not as the sun crept through the Venetian blinds and seemed to ignite her already-luminous smaragdine eyes. 2007, Brite Templeton, Under Aldebaran, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 27:

Relateds

smaragd

Translations (9)

nah quetzalizpaltic (having the colour of emeralds) · hy զմրուխտագույն (having the colour of emeralds) · fi smaragdinvihreä (having the colour of emeralds) · sv smaragd- (of or pertaining to emeralds) · fi smaragdin- (of or pertaining to emeralds) · ru изумру́дный (having the colour of emeralds) · hy զմրուխտե (having the colour of emeralds) · sv smaragdgrön (having the colour of emeralds) · pt esmeraldino (having the colour of emeralds)

smaragdine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /sməˈɹæɡdiːn/

Etymology

From Latin smaragdinus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδινος (smáragdinos), from σμάραγδος (smáragdos). See emerald for more.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Emerald.
   • […]others green, as the emerald, smaragdine, and beryl; others bluish, as the sapphire and turquois; others purple-coloured, as the amethyst. 1833, John Brown, A Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Stones, page 484:
   • In a work attributed to Albertus Magnus, but which is probably spurious, we are told that Alexander the Great found the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron. This tomb contained an emerald table — “The Smaragdine Table″ — on which were inscribed the following thirteen sentences in Phœnician characters: — 1997, H. Stanley Redgrove, Alchemy Ancient and Modern (Facsimile Reprint), page 40:
   • The smaragdine and beryl, (as they are called), which are found in the copper-mines, are said to have their colour from their mixture with sulphur: and that the chrysolite, produced by the heat of thesun, receives its tincture from a hot and fiery exhalation. 1814, G. Booth, The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, volume 1, translation of original by Diodorus Siculus, page 143: