# citrine
## English
### Alternative forms

* citrean
* citrinous

### Etymology

From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪtɹin/, /ˈsɪtɹən/, /ˈsɪtɹain/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪtɹiːn/, /ˈsɪtɹin/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪtɹiːn, (General American) -ɪtɹən
* Homophones: Citroën (UK), citron (General American)

### Noun

citrine (countable and uncountable, plural citrines)
* A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
    citrine:
** 1598, Francis Thynne, Animadversions […] :[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
** c. 1398, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, 1962, page 1242:
    dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
* A brownish-yellow quartz.

#### Derived terms

* ametrine
* citrination

#### Translations
### Adjective

citrine (not comparable)
* Of a goldish-yellow colour.
** 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 31:The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.

#### Derived terms

* citrine ointment
* citrine wagtail

#### Translations
### See also

* false topaz
* Appendix:Colors

### References

* ↑ “citrine, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* citiner, crinite, inciter, neritic, retinic, tricine

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /si.tʁin/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

citrine f (plural citrines)
* citrine

### Further reading

* “citrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Adjective

citrine
* feminine plural of citrino

### Anagrams

* Incerti, cretini, incerti, increti, recinti, ricinte

## Latin
### Adjective

citrīne
* vocative masculine singular of citrīnus

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* citryn, sitrine, citherin, citryne, cytryne, citrin

### Etymology

From Middle French citrine and Medieval Latin citrīnus.

### Pronunciation

* (Early Middle English) IPA: /tsit(ə)ˈriːnə/
* IPA: /sit(ə)ˈriːn(ə)/

### Noun

citrine (plural citrines)
* citron (Citrus medica)
* orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
* brownish-yellow (colour)
* sallow, having yellowish skin

#### Descendants

* English: citrine

#### References

* “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
* “citrīne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

### Adjective

citrine
* orange, red-yellow, amber (colour)
* brownish-yellow (colour)
* sallow, having yellowish skin

#### Descendants

* English: citrine

#### References

* “citrīn(e, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

### See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text) :
| whit | grey, hor | blak |
| red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
| grasgrene | grene | |
| plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
| violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |