lapis lazuli

See also: Lapislazuli, lapislázuli, lapis-lazuli, and lápis-lazúli

English edit

Lapis lazuli (1)

Etymology edit

From Middle English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) +‎ lazulī, genitive singular of lazulum (“lapis lazuli, azure, the sky”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli, azure”), from Persian (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlap.ɪs ˈlaz.jʊ.laɪ/, /ˈlaz.jʊ.li/
(General American) enPR: lăp'ĭs lăzʹ(y)ə-lē, lăzʹ(y)ə-lī, lăzhʹə-lē, lăzhʹə-lī, IPA^(key): /ˌlæp.ɪs ˈlæz.(j)ə.li/, /ˈlæz.(j)ə.laɪ/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.li/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.laɪ/, /ləˈzu.li/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

Noun edit

lapis lazuli (countable and uncountable, plural lapides lazuli or lapis lazulis)

(mineralogy) A deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine.
Synonyms: lapis, lazuli, lazurite
- 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:
  He saw the amber silk curtains wave to and fro: the middle window was open; in it stood a pillar of lapis lazuli, which supported an alabaster figure, Canova's Dansatrice.
A deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
lapis lazuli:

Translations edit

precious blue stone

Arabic: لَازَوَرْد (ar) (lāzaward)
Armenian: լաջվարդ (hy) (laǰvard)
Azerbaijani: lacivərd
Catalan: lapislàtzuli (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 青金石 (zh) (qīngjīnshí)
Czech: lazurit m
Dutch: lapis lazuli (nl) m, lazuriet (nl) n
Egyptian:

(ḫsbḏ)
Esperanto: lazurito
Finnish: lapis lazuli (fi), lapislatsuli
French: lapis-lazuli (fr) m
Galician: asur
Georgian: ლაჟვარდი (lažvardi)
German: Lapislazuli (de) m, Lapis Lazuli m, Lasurstein m, Lazurit n
Greek: λαζουρίτης (el) m (lazourítis)
Hindi: लाजवर्द (hi) m (lājvard), रावटी (hi) f (rāvṭī), वैडूर्य (hi) m (vaiḍūrya), वैदूर्य (hi) m (vaidūrya)
Hungarian: lapis lazuli (hu), lazúrkő (hu)
Ido: lapislazulo (io)
Indonesian: lazuardi (id)
Irish: lapis lazuli
Italian: lapislazzuli (it) m
Japanese: 瑠璃 (ja) (るり, ruri), 琉璃 (るり, ruri), 青金石 (せいきんせき, seikinseki), ラピスラズリ (ja) (rapisu razuri)
Korean: 청금석(青金石) (cheonggeumseok)
Latin: sappīrus f (Classical), lapis lazuli m (Medieval)
Malay: lazuardi (ms)
Ottoman Turkish: لاجورد (laciverd)
Pali: veḷuriya n
Persian: لاجورد (fa) (lâjvard)
Polish: lapis lazuli (pl) m, lapis-lazuli m, lazuryt (pl) m
Portuguese: lápis-lazúli m
Punjabi: ਲਾਜਵਰਦ m (lājvarad)
Romanian: lapislazuli (ro) n, lazurit (ro) n
Russian: лазури́т (ru) m (lazurít), ля́пис-лазу́рь (ru) f (ljápis-lazúrʹ)
Sanskrit: वैडूर्य (sa) (vaiḍūrya), राजावर्त (sa) (rājāvarta)
Scottish Gaelic: clach-chopair f
Spanish: lapislázuli (es) m
Swedish: lapis lazuli (sv), lasursten c
Thai: แลพิสแลซูลี (lɛɛ-pí-lɛɛ-sui-lîi)
Turkish: lazur taşı
Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎖𐎐𐎜 (ỉqnủ)
Ukrainian: лазури́т m (lazurýt), ля́піс-лазу́р f (ljápis-lazúr)
Urdu: لاجورد m (lājvard)
Uyghur: لاجىۋەرد (lajiwerd)
Uzbek: lojuvard (uz)
Vietnamese: đá da trời, ngọc lưu ly
Welsh: asur m

Adjective edit

lapis lazuli

Of a deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
- 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
  I cannot convey to you the sheer and surreal scale of everything: the towering ship, the ropes, the ties, the anchor, the pier, the vast lapis lazuli dome of the sky.

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Dutch edit

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

lapis lazuli

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) and lazulī (“of the heavens”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.pɪs laːˈzu.li/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

Noun edit

lapis lazuli m (uncountable)

(mineralogy) lapis lazuli
Synonyms: azuursteen, lazuursteen

Latin edit

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

lapis lazuli

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology edit

lapis + lazulum

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis ˈlaz.zu.liː/, [ˈɫ̪äpɪs̠ ˈɫ̪äz̪d̪͡z̪ʊlʲiː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis ˈlad.d͡zu.li/, [ˈläːpis ˈläd̪ː͡z̪uli]

Noun edit

lapis lazulī m (genitive lapidis lazulī); third declension

lapis lazuli

Declension edit

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lapis lazulī	lapidēs lazulī
Genitive	lapidis lazulī	lapidum lazulī
Dative	lapidī lazulī	lapidibus lazulī
Accusative	lapidem lazulī	lapidēs lazulī
Ablative	lapide lazulī	lapidibus lazulī
Vocative	lapis lazulī	lapidēs lazulī

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References edit

“lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
LAZULI lapis lazuli 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)
lazuli lapis lazuli in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“lapis lazuli”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 678