citrine

See also: Citrine

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹin/, /ˈsɪtɹən/, /ˈsɪtɹain/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪtɹiːn/, /ˈsɪtɹin/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn, (General American) -ɪtɹən
  • Homophones: Citroën (UK), citron (General American)

Noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)

  1. 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.
  2. A brownish-yellow quartz.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

citrine (not comparable)

  1. Of a goldish-yellow colour.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • false topaz
  • Appendix:Colors

References

  1. ^ citrine, adj. and n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.tʁin/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

citrine f (plural citrines)

  1. citrine

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

citrine

  1. feminine plural of citrino

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

citrīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of citrīnus

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • citryn, sitrine, citherin, citryne, cytryne, citrin

Etymology

From Middle French citrine and Medieval Latin citrīnus.

Pronunciation

Noun

citrine (plural citrines)

  1. citron (Citrus medica)
  2. orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
  3. brownish-yellow (colour)
  4. sallow, having yellowish skin

Descendants

  • English: citrine

References

Adjective

citrine

  1. orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
  2. brownish-yellow (colour)
  3. sallow, having yellowish skin

Descendants

References

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
     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