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单词 hyacinthine
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hyacinthine

English

Etymology

From Latin hyacinthinus, from Ancient Greek ὑακίνθινος (huakínthinos), from ὑάκινθος (huákinthos); corresponding to hyacinth + -ine.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪnθɪn
  • Rhymes: -ɪnθaɪn
  • Rhymes: -ɪnθiːn

Adjective

hyacinthine (comparative more hyacinthine, superlative most hyacinthine)

  1. Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem or the flower); reddish-gold (chiefly with reference to hair).
    • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 300-303,
      His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:
    • 1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days (page 191)
      [] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
  2. Curling like the petals of the hyacinth.
  3. Beautiful, like the mythological Hyacinthus.
  • hyacinth
  • jacinth

Latin

Adjective

hyacinthine

  1. vocative masculine singular of hyacinthinus
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