citrine

See also: Citrine

English

A cut citrine gem

Alternative forms

• citrean
• citrinous

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtɹin/, /ˈsɪtɹən/, /ˈsɪtɹain/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtɹiːn/, /ˈsɪtɹin/

• Audio (US):

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• 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

• ametrine
• citrination

 

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)

• Dutch: citrien (nl) m
• 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 m (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, 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

• 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

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.

Italian

Adjective

citrine

1. feminine plural of citrino

Anagrams

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

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

• (Early Middle English) 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, gul; canevas
grasgrene	grene
plunket; ewage	asure, livid	blewe, blo, pers
violet; inde	rose, murrey; purpel, purpur	claret