citrine

• citrean
• citrinous

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.^[1]

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

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• 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:  

   • 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.

   • 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :

     […] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]

   • 2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 69:

     From above and behind his head, there came a bumblebee as big as his thumb. It circled his ear, then hovered by the rock, probing the nodes of citrine, which were the same bright yellow as the fieldstars that bloomed among the hills.

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

From Middle French citrine and Medieval Latin citrīnus.

• (Early Middle English) 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 30 March 2018.
• “citrīne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 March 2018.

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 30 March 2018.