hyacinthine

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

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

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

hyacinthine

1. vocative masculine singular of hyacinthinus