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单词 smaragdus
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smaragdusn.

/sməˈraɡdəs/
Etymology: Latin, < Greek σμάραγδος, first recorded in Herodotus; the form μάραγδος also occurs in poets. The word is probably foreign to Greek, and connected with Sanskrit marakata, marakta emerald.
Now rare.
= smaragd n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > beryl > [noun] > emerald
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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xxi. 19 The first foundement, iaspis;..the fourthe, smaragdus.
a1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Royal) (1886) 45 In þis hille is founde a preciouse stone þat is cleped þere smaragdus: and þis stoon..is kitte out of þis hille.
1486 Coote Armuris sig. aijv, in Bk. St. Albans The secunde stone is cald Smaragdus a grauely stone signifiyng vert in armys.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Evjv The precyous stone called Smaragdus (which is ye true Emerode).
1592 T. Lodge Euphues Shadow B iij Who so liueth in Passan, must beare the stone Smaragdus with the Griphon against the stinging of Serpents.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis iii. i. iv. 287 The Smaragdus, growing together with a pale Amethyst in one Matrix.
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 596 The Gem, call'd by the antients Smaragdus, or the Emerald, was evidently the same with that we now know by that name.
1875 R. W. Emerson Lett. & Social Aims viii. 196 Color, taste, and smell, smaragdus, sugar, and musk.
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