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单词 citrinity
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citrinityn.

Forms: late Middle English citrinite, late Middle English citrinyte, late Middle English cytrynyte, 1600s citrinity.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French citrinité; Latin citrinitas.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French citrinité (a1365; 1478 in a French translation of Chauliac; French citrinité ), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin citrinitas yellowness (6th cent.; from 12th cent. in British sources) < citrinus citrine adj. + classical Latin -tās (see -ty suffix1; compare -ity suffix). Compare citrineness n.
Obsolete.
Yellowness, esp. (Alchemy) as the quality produced by a process of citrination; = citrineness n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow > greenish
citrinea1398
citrineness?a1425
citrinity?a1425
primrose colour1600
citron1612
lemon-colour1707
lemon1794
primrose1805
primrose yellow1839
lemon-hue1845
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 91v (MED) Rednez of blode, cytrynyte [L. citrinitas] of colre, whitnes of fleume, blacnes of melancolie.
1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. i. iv. 149 Citrinity or Yellowness is..a determinate Proportion of White and Red.
1692 W. Salmon Medicina Practica xiii. 253/2 Heat working in the dryness, causeth Whiteness, and in the White the Citrinity and wonderful deep Redness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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