citrine

• citrean
• citrinous

From French citrin, from Latin citrus.

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

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.

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.

• false topaz
• Appendix:Colors

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

• IPA^(key): /si.tʁin/

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citrine f (plural citrines)

1. citrine

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

citrine

1. feminine plural of citrino

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

citrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of citrīnus

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

Medieval Latin citrīnus.

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

citrine (plural citrines)

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

• English: citrine

• “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.

citrine

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

• English: citrine

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