Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A relatively rare blue, violet-blue, or greenish-blue translucent mineral, Na4-5Al3Si3O12S, the chief component of lapis lazuli.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sodium-aluminium silicate which forms the essential part of the ornamental stone lapis lazuli.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A mineral of metamorphosed limestones. Lazurite forms the gemstone lapis lazuli, and crushed lazurite provided the ultramarine color in artists' paint of the old masters. sodalite and lazurite form the sodalite group of silicate minerals. Chemical composition: Sodium aluminum silicate with sulphur, .
Etymologies
- From Medieval Latin lazur ("lapis lazuli"), from Arabic (lzaward), because of the similar, distinctive blue coloring. (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin lāzur, lapis lazuli (from Arabic lāzaward; see lapis lazuli) + -ite1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first northern case (55) is covered with various Sulphates, or metals in combination with sulphuric acid, exhibiting beautiful crystals and colours, including sulphate of magnesia from Oregon; sulphate of zinc, or white vitriol; sulphate of iron, or green vitriol; and the splendid blue sulphates of copper from Hungary; beautiful sulphates of lead from Anglesea; sulphates of alumina; common alum; and the splendid specimens of lazurite, or lapis-lazuli, --”
“1828 M. Guimet succeeded in making an artificial ultramarine, known now extensively as French ultramarine, which is little, if at all, inferior in beauty to lazurite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lazurite’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Of Arabic Origin
Arabic loanwords in English are words acquired directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance lan...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
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Bluzonia
hydrangea, periwinkle, indigo, seamist, seafoam, silvermist, turquoise, cornflower, aquamarine, azure, teal, cobalt and 46 more...
Tweets
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yarb By the afternoon though, when the sky turned lazurite, she'd flag; the whole garden would subside.
- Romesh Gunesekera, Heaven's Edge, 2003 Aug 20, 2008