cinnabar

From Middle English cynabare [mid-15^th c.], from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), from perhaps Arabic زِنْجَفْر‎ (zinjafr), related to Persian شنگرف‎‎ (šangarf), of unknown origin.

• enPR: sĭ ʹ-nə-bär, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnəbɑɹ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.nə.baː(ɹ)]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.nə.bɑː(ɹ)]
• (US) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.nə.bɑɹ]

cinnabar (countable and uncountable, plural cinnabars)

1. A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
2. A bright red colour tinted with orange.

   cinnabar colour:  

3. (countable) A species of moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

4. "Cinnabar Panacea"; the Elixir of Life.

• (moth): cinnabar moth

cinnabar (comparative more cinnabar, superlative most cinnabar)

1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.

• cinnabar moth
• hypercinnabar
• metacinnabar

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cinnabar.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• mercury

• “Cinnabar” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
• “cinnabar”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.