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MARCH 17, 2017
smaragdineadjective [smuh-RAG-din]
1. emerald-green in color.
2. of or relating to emeralds.
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6 words that can ruin your sentenceQUOTESThe big doors to the water
were open, giving an occasional draft of welcome cool air, and you
could see smudges of black woodsmoke drifting out over thesmaragdine
brightness of the harbor.
-- S. M. Stirling, Island in the Sea of Time, 1998 ORIGINThe Greek
words smáragdos, máragdos âemeraldâ are not Greek in origin. Most
likely the words are borrowed from Prakrit (any of the ancient or
medieval Indic languages, e.g., Pali, the language of the Buddha,
derived from Sanskrit)maragada- (from Sanskrit marakata), and are
related to Akkadian barraqtu and Hebrew bÄreqeth âgemstone,
emerald,â from the Semitic root brq âto shine, flash.âSmaragdine
entered English in the 14th century.
