smaragdus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), itself from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /smaˈraɡ.dus/, [s̠mäˈräɡd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /smaˈraɡ.dus/, [zmäˈräɡd̪us]

Noun

smaragdus m (genitive smaragdī); second declension

1. emerald

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	smaragdus	smaragdī
genitive	smaragdī	smaragdōrum
dative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
accusative	smaragdum	smaragdōs
ablative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
vocative	smaragde	smaragdī

Derived terms

• smaragdīnus

Descendants

• Aragonese: esmeralda
• Asturian: esmeralda
• Catalan: maragda, esmaragda
• → Czech: smaragd
• → Danish: smaragd
• → Dutch: smaragd
• → English: smaragd
• → Estonian: smaragd
• Old French: esmeraude, esmeralde
  • French: émeraude
  • → Middle English: emeraude
    • English: emerald
      • → Welsh: emrald, emrallt
  • → Old Spanish: esmeralda
    • Spanish: esmeralda
      • → Tagalog: esmeralda
• Friulian: smeralt, smerald
• Galician: esmeralda
• → German: Smaragd
• → Hungarian: smaragd
• → Old Irish: smaragad
  • Irish: smaragaid
• Italian: smeraldo
• → Norwegian Bokmål: smaragd
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: smaragd
• Occitan: esmeralda
• → Old Norse: smaragdr
• Piedmontese: smerald
• → Polish: szmaragd
• Portuguese: esmeralda
• Romanian: smarald
• Romansch: smaragd
• → Serbo-Croatian: smaragd
• Sicilian: smaraudu
• → Swedish: smaragd
• Venetan: smeraldo

References

• “smaragdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “smaragdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• smaragdus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• smaragdus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Latvian

Noun

smaragdus m

1. accusative plural of smaragds