lapis lazuli

From Middle English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) +‎ lazulī, genitive singular of lazulum (“lapis lazuli, azure, the sky”), from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli, azure”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlap.ɪs ˈlaz.jʊ.laɪ/, /ˈlaz.jʊ.li/
• (General American) enPR: lăp'ĭs lăzʹ(y)ə-lē, lăzʹ(y)ə-lī, lăzhʹə-lē, lăzhʹə-lī, IPA^(key): /ˌlæp.ɪs ˈlæz.(j)ə.li/, /ˈlæz.(j)ə.laɪ/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.li/, /ˈlæʒ.ə.laɪ/, /ləˈzu.li/

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• Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

lapis lazuli (countable and uncountable, plural lapides lazuli or lapis lazulis)

1. (mineralogy) A deep-blue stone, used in making jewelry, and traditionally used to make the pigment ultramarine.

   Synonyms: lapis, lazuli, lazurite

   • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 66:

     He saw the amber silk curtains wave to and fro: the middle window was open; in it stood a pillar of lapis lazuli, which supported an alabaster figure, Canova's Dansatrice.

2. A deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.

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lapis lazuli

1. Of a deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     I cannot convey to you the sheer and surreal scale of everything: the towering ship, the ropes, the ties, the anchor, the pier, the vast lapis lazuli dome of the sky.

• azure
• lazurite

• sodium aluminum sulfosilicate
• ultramarine

• lapis lazuli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English lapis lazuli, from Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) and lazulī (“of the heavens”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.pɪs laːˈzu.li/

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• Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

lapis lazuli m (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) lapis lazuli

   Synonyms: azuursteen, lazuursteen

Compound of lapis (“stone”) +‎ lazulum (“heaven”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.pɪs ˈɫaz.zʊ.liː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.pis ˈlad̪.d̪͡z̪u.li]

lapis lazulī m (genitive lapidis lazulī); third declension

1. lapis lazuli

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

• lapidārius
• lapidātiō
• lapidātor

• “lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lapis lazuli", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lazuli lapis lazuli”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lapis lazuli”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 678

• lapis-lazuli

Internationalism; compare English lapis lazuli, French lapis-lazuli, German Lapislazuli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis laˈzu.li/

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• Syllabification: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

lapis lazuli m inan (indeclinable)

1. lapis lazuli, lazurite

   Synonym: lazuryt

• lapis lazuli in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lapis lazuli in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• lapis lazuli in PWN's encyclopedia