verdigris
US/ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/
verdigris noun: a blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
Noun
verdigris (countable and uncountable, plural verdigrises)
- A blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
- Let's to^([sic]) the museum. Cannon-balls; arrow-heads; Roman glass and a forceps green with verdigris.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 17
- […]there were three small brass coins there, the gift of Ymar. Their legends, like their faces, had worn away; and they were dark with verdigris — in appearance precisely the ancient things they were.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XLVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281
- Synonyms:
- aerugo, green brass
- Copper acetate.
- Synonyms:
- Spanish green
- The color of this patina or material.
- Gamboge is one of the firſt yellows, which may be made to produce five or six ſorts of Green with verdegreaſe, according as the gambooge is in the greater or leſſer proportion; if it abounds, it will make a tolerable oak green, and being mixt with a greater quantity of verdegreaſe, it will make a...1735, [John Barrow], “GREENS”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume I (A–H), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel]...
- […]let them tell me candidly which is nearest truth, the gold of Turner, or the mourning and murky olive browns and verdigris greens in which Claude, with the industry and intelligence of a Sevres china painter, drags the laborious bramble leaves over his childish foreground.1843, [John Ruskin], chapter 2, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part II (Of Truth), section VI (Of Truth of Vegetation—Conclusion), § 7, page 123
- Synonyms:
- Spanish green
Verb
verdigris (third-person singular simple present verdigrises, present participle verdigrising, simple past and past participle verdigrised)
- To cover, or coat, with verdigris.
- […] there were always some wretched musicians, with an old fiddle, an old clarinet, and an old verdigrised brass bugle[…]1853 August 4 – 1858 January 3 (date written), Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: Fields...
verdigris meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
verdigris in Hindi
- blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys
- ज़ंगार zaṅgār, पितराई pitrāī, काई kāī, ताम्रकिट्ट tāmrakiṭṭ
verdigris in Tamil
- blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys
- களிம்பு kaḷimpu, துரு turu
- copper acetate
- களிம்பு kaḷimpu
verdigris in Urdu
- زہریلا مرکب, زنگار
verdigris in Telugu
- blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys
- కిలము kilamu
More languagesFewer languages
- verdigris in Malayalam
- കളിമ്പ് kaḷimpŭ, ക്ലാവ് klāvŭ
- verdigris in Kannada
- ಕಿಲುಬು
- verdigris in Assamese
- কঁহ kõh
- verdigris in Tagalog
- taeng-tanso, taing-tanso
- verdigris in Arabic
- زِنْجَار zinjār, زِنْجَارِيّ zinjāriyy
- verdigris in Persian
- زنگار zangâr
- verdigris in Vietnamese
- gỉ đồng, màu xanh đồng, màu gỉ đồng
Synonyms of verdigris
Forms of verdigris
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | verdigrises |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | verdigrises |
| present participle | verdigrising |
| past participle | verdigrised |
| past | verdigrised |
Origin of verdigris
From Middle English vertegrece, verdegres, from Old French verte grez (literally “acidic green”), an alteration of older verte de Grece (literally “green of Greece”). The modern French writing of this word is vert-de-gris (literally “green of gray”).
Words formed from verdigris
Questions about verdigris
- What does verdigris mean?
- Verdigris means a blue-green patina or rust that forms on copper-containing metals.
- What is verdigris in Hindi?
- Verdigris in Hindi is ज़ंगार (zaṅgār), पितराई (pitrāī), काई (kāī). See Verdigris meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is verdigris?
- Verdigris can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce verdigris?
- Verdigris is pronounced /ˈvɝ.də.ɡɹis/ (US).
- What is the plural of verdigris?
- The plural of verdigris is verdigrises.
Words near verdigris in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: verdigris (page history and authors); verdigris (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കളിമ്പ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); verdigris (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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