sinople
English
Alternative forms
- sinoper, zinopre, synopre, synopar, zenober, synopeir, synapour, synamer, synaper
Etymology
From Old French sinople, from Latin Sinōpis, from Ancient Greek Σινωπίς (Sinōpís, “of Sinope”).
Noun
sinople (countable and uncountable, plural sinoples)
- (obsolete) A shade of red; sinoper.
- (obsolete) Sinoper, a kind of red earth historically used as a pigment, originally imported to Greece from Sinope in Paphlagonia.
- (mineralogy) ferruginous quartz of a blood-red or brownish red colour, sometimes with a tinge of yellow, used to make the pigment sinopia.
- (obsolete, heraldry) Vert.
- 1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts
- In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.
- 1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts
Catalan
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Sinopis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.nɔpl/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “sinople” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
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