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.

Case	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
  • → Old Spanish: esmeralda
    • Spanish: esmeralda
      • → Tagalog: esmeralda
• Friulian: smeralt, smerald
• Galician: esmeralda
• German: Smaragd
• Hungarian: smaragd
• 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
• 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 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