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verdigris

MeaningGreek green

Common meaning: green coating formed on copper or bronze

Journey through time

  1. Latinviride graecum‘Greek green’source
  2. Old Frenchvertsource
  3. Middle Englishverdegrece‘green pigment’source
  4. Englishverdigris‘green coating formed on copper or bronze’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin viride graecum ‘Greek green’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry VERDIGRIS, p. 683 · dictionary scan

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