verdigris

英 ['v??d?gri?; -gri?s] 美['v?d?ɡri]

GRE

1. Etymologically, verdigris means 'green of Greece'.

verdigris 銅綠

來自古法語verte de Grece,即green(viridis) of Greece.比較fenugreek.

verdigris: verdigris: [14] Etymologically, verdigris means ‘green of Greece’. It comes from Old French vertegrez, a conflation of vert de Grece ‘green of Greece’ (vert came from Latin viridis ‘green’, which also gave English verdant [16] and verdure [14] and may be related to Old English wīse ‘sprout, stalk’, Old Norse vísir ‘bud, sprout’, and Lithuanian veisti ‘propagate’). The reason for the application of the term to the patina on copper is not known.
=> verdant, verdure
verdigris (n.): c. 1300, vertegrez, from Old French verte grez (13c.), verte de Grece (late 12c.), literally "green of Greece," from obsolete French verd, from Latin viridis (see verdure). The reason for it being called that is not known. In other languages, "green of Spain" (German grünspan, Danish spanskgr?nt, Dutch spaansch-groen), from Medieval Latin viride Hispanum. Current spelling in English is from 1789. In chemistry, confined to a basic copper acetate; popularly applied to the green encrustation on copper or brass exposed to the air.

2. Verdigris has spread all over that abandoned copper pot.: 那把已經廢棄的銅壺上長滿了銅銹.

3. The latter has neither hens nor chicks, and only thinks of himself and perspires verdigris.: 那風信公雞既沒有母雞,也沒有小雞.他只想著自己,滿身銅綠!