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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹin/, /ˈsɪtɹən/, /ˈsɪtɹain/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹiːn/, /ˈsɪtɹin/
- Rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn, (General American) -ɪtɹən
- Homophones: Citroën (UK), citron (General American)
Noun
[edit]citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)
- A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
- citrine:
- 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :
- […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
- 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:
- 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.
- A brownish-yellow quartz.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]goldish-yellow colour
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brownish-yellow quartz
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Adjective
[edit]citrine (not comparable)
- Of a goldish-yellow colour.
- 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:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]of a goldish-yellow colour
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “citrine, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]citrine f (plural citrines)
Further reading
[edit]- “citrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]citrine
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]citrīne
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French citrine and Medieval Latin citrīnus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Early Middle English) IPA(key): /tsit(ə)ˈriːnə/
- IPA(key): /sit(ə)ˈriːn(ə)/
Noun
[edit]citrine (plural citrines)
- citron (Citrus medica)
- orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
- brownish-yellow (colour)
- sallow, having yellowish skin
Descendants
[edit]- English: citrine
References
[edit]- “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
- “citrīne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Adjective
[edit]citrine
Descendants
[edit]- English: citrine
References
[edit]- “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
[edit]whit | grey, hor | blak |
red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
grasgrene | grene | |
plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
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