orpiment

• auripigment

From Middle English orpyment, from Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːpɪmənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹpəmənt/

orpiment (countable and uncountable, plural orpiments)

1. Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 24, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 242:

     Jeremiah found himself indoors, perfecting his Draftsmanship, bending all day over the work-table, grinding and mixing his own Inks,— siftings and splashes ev'rywhere of King's Yellow, Azure, red Orpiment, Indian lake, Verdigris, Indigo, and Umber.

• red orpiment
• yellow orpiment

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• David Barthelmy (1997–2025), “Orpiment”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “orpiment”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

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orpiment m (plural orpiments)

1. orpiment

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

orpiment

1. alternative form of orpyment

Borrowed from French orpiment.

orpiment n (uncountable)

1. orpiment