lapis lazuli

See also: Lapislazuli, lapislázuli, lapis-lazuli, and lápis-lazúli

English

Etymology

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 (lâjvard). Compare azure, of the same origin.

Pronunciation

(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/
Audio (US): (file)
Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

Noun

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

(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.
A deep, bright blue, like that of the stone.
lapis lazuli:

Translations

precious blue stone

Arabic: لَازَوَرْد (ar) (lāzaward)
Armenian: լաջվարդ (hy) (laǰvard)
Azerbaijani: lacivərd
Catalan: lapislàtzuli (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 青金石 (zh) (qīngjīnshí)
Czech: lazurit m
Dutch: lapis lazuli (nl) m, lazuriet (nl) n
Egyptian:

(ḫsbḏ)
Esperanto: lazurito
Finnish: lapis lazuli (fi), lapislatsuli (fi)
French: lapis-lazuli (fr) m
Galician: asur
Georgian: ლაჟვარდი (ka) (lažvardi)
German: Lapislazuli (de) m, Lapis Lazuli m, Lasurstein m, Lazurit n
Greek: λαζουρίτης (el) m (lazourítis)
Hindi: लाजवर्द (hi) m (lājvard), रावटी (hi) f (rāvṭī), वैडूर्य (hi) m (vaiḍūrya), वैदूर्य (hi) m (vaidūrya)
Hungarian: lapis lazuli (hu), lazúrkő (hu)
Ido: lapislazulo (io)
Indonesian: lazuardi (id)
Irish: lapis lazuli
Italian: lapislazzuli (it) m
Japanese: 瑠璃 (ja) (るり, ruri), 琉璃 (るり, ruri), 青金石 (せいきんせき, seikinseki), ラピスラズリ (ja) (rapisu razuri)
Korean: 청금석(青金石) (cheonggeumseok)
Latin: sappīrus f (Classical), lapis lazuli m (Medieval)
Malay: lazuardi (ms)
Old Uyghur: 𐽾𐽴𐽰𐽱𐽾𐾀 (razavart)
Ottoman Turkish: لاجورد (laciverd)
Pali: veḷuriya n
Persian: لاجورد (fa) (lâjvard)
Polish: lapis lazuli (pl) m, lapis-lazuli m, lazuryt (pl) m
Portuguese: lápis-lazúli m
Punjabi: ਲਾਜਵਰਦ m (lājvarad)
Romanian: lapislazuli (ro) n, lazurit (ro) n
Russian: лазури́т (ru) m (lazurít), ля́пис-лазу́рь (ru) f (ljápis-lazúrʹ)
Sanskrit: वैडूर्य (sa) (vaiḍūrya), राजावर्त (sa) (rājāvarta)
Scottish Gaelic: clach-chopair f
Spanish: lapislázuli (es) m
Swedish: lapis lazuli (sv), lasursten c
Thai: แลพิสแลซูลี (lɛɛ-pí-lɛɛ-sui-lîi)
Turkish: lazur taşı
Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎖𐎐𐎜 (ỉqnủ)
Ukrainian: лазури́т m (lazurýt), ля́піс-лазу́р f (ljápis-lazúr)
Urdu: لاجورد m (lājvard)
Uyghur: لاجىۋەرد (lajiwerd)
Uzbek: lojuvard (uz)
Vietnamese: đá da trời, ngọc lưu ly
Welsh: asur m

Adjective

lapis lazuli

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.

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Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

lapis lazuli

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.pɪs laːˈzu.li/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: la‧pis la‧zu‧li

Noun

lapis lazuli m (uncountable)

(mineralogy) lapis lazuli
Synonyms: azuursteen, lazuursteen

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

lapis lazuli

Wikipedia ^la

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lep-

Proto-Italic *lapets

Latin lapis

Persian

Classical Persian (lājaward)bor.

Arabic لََازُوَرْد (laāzuward)bor.

Latin lazulum

Latin lapis lazulī

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

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis ˈlaz.zu.liː/, [ˈɫ̪äpɪs ˈɫ̪äz̪ːʊlʲiː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.pis ˈlad.d͡zu.li/, [ˈläːpis ˈläd̪ː͡z̪uli]

Noun

lapis lazulī m (genitive lapidis lazulī); third declension

lapis lazuli

Declension

Third-declension noun with an indeclinable portion.

	singular	plural
nominative	lapis lazulī	lapidēs lazulī
genitive	lapidis lazulī	lapidum lazulī
dative	lapidī lazulī	lapidibus lazulī
accusative	lapidem lazulī	lapidēs lazulī
ablative	lapide lazulī	lapidibus lazulī
vocative	lapis lazulī	lapidēs lazulī

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References

“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