citrine

citrine

See also: Citrine

English

A cut citrine gem

Alternative forms

• citrean
• citrinous

Etymology

From French citrin, from Latin citrus.

Pronunciation

• (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

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.

Translations

goldish-yellow colour

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sitriininkeltainen Irish: ciotrónach m Russian: please add this translation if you can

brownish-yellow quartz

Belarusian: цытры́н m (cytrýn) Catalan: citrina f Chinese: Cantonese: 黃水晶, 黄水晶 (wong4 seoi2 zing1) Mandarin: 黃水晶／黄水晶 (zh) (huángshuǐjīng) Finnish: sitriini (fi) French: citrine (fr) f German: Citrin (de) m Irish: citrín m, tópás bréige m Italian: citrino (it) m Japanese: 黄水晶 (Kisuishō), シトリン (Shitorin) Polish: cytryn (pl) m Portuguese: citrino m Russian: цитри́н (ru) m (citrín), фальши́вый топа́з (falʹšívyj topáz) Spanish: citrino m Ukrainian: цитри́н (uk) m (cytrýn) Welsh: sitrin m

Adjective

citrine (not comparable)

1. Of a goldish-yellow colour.
   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer, ch. 3:

     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

• citrine ointment
• citrine wagtail

 

Translations

of a goldish-yellow colour

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: sitriininkeltainen Irish: ciotrónach Russian: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: цитри́новий (uk) (cytrýnovyj)

See also

• false topaz
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• citiner, crinite, inciter, neritic, retinic, tricine

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.tʁin/

• Audio

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Noun

citrine f (plural citrines)

1. citrine

Further reading

• “citrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

citrine

1. feminine plural of citrino

Anagrams

• Incerti, cretini, incerti, increti, recinti, ricinte

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Latin

Adjective

citrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of citrīnus

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Medieval Latin citrīnus.

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /tsit(ə)ˈriːnə/
• IPA^(key): /sit(ə)ˈriːn(ə)/

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

• “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

citrine

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

Descendants

• English: citrine

References

• “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

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

whit	grey, hor	blak
red; cremesyn, gernet	citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne	yelow, dorry; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret