smaragd

See also: Smaragd

English

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsmæɹæɡd/, /sməˈɹæɡd/
  • Rhymes: -æɡd

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragds)

  1. (obsolete) An emerald.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], 3rd edition, London: [] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone []
    • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:
      Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.

Synonyms

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsmarakt]

Noun

smaragd m inan

  1. emerald

Declension

Derived terms

  • smaragdový

Further reading

  • smaragd in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • smaragd in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From late Old Norse smaragdr, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smaravd/, [smɑˈʁɑwˀd̥]

Noun

smaragd c (singular definite smaragden, plural indefinite smaragder)

  1. emerald

Declension

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smaːˈrɑxt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: sma‧ragd
  • Rhymes: -ɑxt

Noun

smaragd m (plural smaragden, diminutive smaragdje n)

  1. emerald

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: smarag

References

  • smaragd” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Estonian

Noun

smaragd (genitive smaragdi, partitive smaragdi)

  1. (mineralogy) emerald

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • smaragd”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Faroese

Noun

smaragd

  1. accusative singular of smaragdur

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃmɒrɒɡd]
  • Hyphenation: sma‧ragd
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡd

Noun

smaragd (plural smaragdok)

  1. emerald

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative smaragd smaragdok
accusative smaragdot smaragdokat
dative smaragdnak smaragdoknak
instrumental smaragddal smaragdokkal
causal-final smaragdért smaragdokért
translative smaragddá smaragdokká
terminative smaragdig smaragdokig
essive-formal smaragdként smaragdokként
essive-modal
inessive smaragdban smaragdokban
superessive smaragdon smaragdokon
adessive smaragdnál smaragdoknál
illative smaragdba smaragdokba
sublative smaragdra smaragdokra
allative smaragdhoz smaragdokhoz
elative smaragdból smaragdokból
delative smaragdról smaragdokról
ablative smaragdtól smaragdoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
smaragdé smaragdoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
smaragdéi smaragdokéi
Possessive forms of smaragd
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. smaragdom smaragdjaim
2nd person sing. smaragdod smaragdjaid
3rd person sing. smaragdja smaragdjai
1st person plural smaragdunk smaragdjaink
2nd person plural smaragdotok smaragdjaitok
3rd person plural smaragdjuk smaragdjaik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • smaragd in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

smaragd

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sma.ˈraɡd/, [smɑ.ˈɾɑɡd]

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragder, definite plural smaragdene)

  1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos), from a Semitic language.

Noun

smaragd m (definite singular smaragden, indefinite plural smaragdar, definite plural smaragdane)

  1. (an) emerald (gemstone)

Derived terms

References

Romanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek σμαράγδι (smarágdi). Compare the variant smarald.

Noun

smaragd n (plural smaragde)

  1. Alternative form of smarald (emerald)

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Smaragd, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), from a Semitic language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smǎraɡd/
  • Hyphenation: sma‧ragd

Noun

smàragd m (Cyrillic spelling сма̀рагд)

  1. emerald

Declension

References

  • smaragd” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish smaragd, from Latin smaragdus, from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos).

Noun

smaragd c

  1. emerald (gemstone)

Declension

Declension of smaragd 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative smaragd smaragden smaragder smaragderna
Genitive smaragds smaragdens smaragders smaragdernas

Derived terms

References

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