orpiment

orpiment

English

Orpiment

Alternative forms

• auripigment

Etymology

From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːpɪmənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹpəmənt/

Noun

orpiment (countable and uncountable, plural orpiments)

1. arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment

Derived terms

• red orpiment
• yellow orpiment

Translations

arsenic trisulphide

Arabic: رَهَج أَصْفَر‎ m (rahaj ʾaṣfar) Armenian: զառիկ (hy) (zaṙik) Bulgarian: арсенов сулфид (arsenov sulfid) Catalan: orpiment (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 雌黃／雌黄 (zh) (cíhuáng) German: Auripigment (de) n, Opperment n, gelbes Schwefelarsenik n, gelbe Arsenblende f, Rauschgelb n Greek: Ancient: ἀρσενικόν n (arsenikón) Italian: orpimento m Latin: auripigmentum n Malay: artal, hartal (ms), retal Middle English: orpyment, auripigment Persian: زرنیخ‎ (fa) (zarnix), اورپیمان‎ (orpimân) Polish: aurypigment (pl) m Portuguese: auripigmento m, ouro-pimenta m, ouro-pigmento m Russian: аурипигме́нт (ru) m (auripigmént) Spanish: oropimente m

See also

• realgar
• cinnabar

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Orpiment”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “orpiment”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Anagrams

• temporin, time porn

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

orpiment m (plural orpiments)

1. orpiment

Further reading

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

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Middle English

Noun

orpiment

1. Alternative form of orpyment

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Romanian

Etymology

From French orpiment.

Noun

orpiment n (uncountable)

1. orpiment

Declension

declension of orpiment (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) orpiment	orpimentul
genitive/dative	(unui) orpiment	orpimentului
vocative	orpimentule