chrysoprase

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) and πράσινον (prásinon, “green”).

Noun

chrysoprase (plural chrysoprases)

(mineralogy) A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
- 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 10, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 7, page 79:
  […] or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase, […]
- 1911, George Sterling, Duandon‎:
  With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze / Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase

Translations

variety of quartz

Armenian: խրիզոպրազ (xrizopraz)
Bikol Central: krisoprasa
Breton: krizopraz
Bulgarian: хризопра́з m (hrizopráz)
Catalan: crisopras m, crisoprasi m
Cherokee: ᏟᏌᏇᏌ (tlisaquesa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 綠玉髓／绿玉髓 (zh) (lǜyùsuǐ)
Czech: please add this translation if you can
Danish: krysopras, chrysopras
Dutch: chrysopraas m
Esperanto: krizopraso, ĥrizoprazo
Estonian: krüsopraas
Finnish: krysopraasi (fi)
French: chrysoprase (fr) f
Galician: crisoprasa f
Georgian: ხრიზოპრაზი (xrizoṗrazi)
German: Chrysopras m
Greek:
Ancient: χρυσόπρασος m (khrusóprasos)
Hungarian: krizopráz (hu)
Ido: hrizoprazo
Indonesian: krisopras (id)
Italian: crisoprasio m, crisopraso m, crisopazio m
Korean: 녹옥수(綠玉髓) (nogoksu), 크리소프레이즈 (keurisopeureijeu)
Latvian: hrizoprāzs m
Lithuanian: chrizoprazas m
Maori: karihoparaha
Mongolian: хризопраз (mn) (xrizopraz)
Niuean: kirisopirēsi
Polish: chryzopraz (pl) m
Portuguese: crisoprásio m, crisopraso m
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: хризопра́з (ru) m (xrizopráz)
Spanish: crisoprasa f
Swahili: krisopraso
Swedish: krysopras, chrysopras
Tagalog: krisoprasa
Turkish: krizopras
Welsh: crysopras m

Further reading

David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Chrysoprase”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
“chrysoprase”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kʁi.zɔ.pʁaz/

Noun

chrysoprase f (plural chrysoprases)

chrysoprase

Further reading

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

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