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smaragdus

smaragdus

Latin

Noun

smaragdus m ‎(genitive smaragdī); second declension

emerald

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	smaragdus	smaragdī
genitive	smaragdī	smaragdōrum
dative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
accusative	smaragdum	smaragdōs
ablative	smaragdō	smaragdīs
vocative	smaragde	smaragdī

Derived terms

smaragdinus

Descendants

Aragonese: esmeralda
Asturian: esmeralda
Catalan: maragda, esmaragda
Dutch: smaragd
English: emerald
French: émeraude
Friulian: smeralt, smerald
Galician: esmeralda
German: Smaragd

Italian: smeraldo
Occitan: esmeralda
Polish: szmaragd
Portuguese: esmeralda
Romanian: smarald
Romansh: smaragd
Sicilian: smiraldu
Spanish: esmeralda
Venetian: 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, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “smaragdus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.