Aqua-Marineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin aqua marīna (“sea water”), adjective form from mare (“sea”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæk.wə.məˈɹiːn/, /ˌɑ.kwə.məˈɹiːn/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

aquamarine (countable and uncountable, plural aquamarines)

1. The bluish-green colour of the sea.

   aquamarine:  

2. A transparent bluish-green, sometimes yellow-green, variety of beryl.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 4, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     Before we could embark on the details of his mother's health we were joined by a fair, plump woman of indefinite age, who had once been—and at moments still was—very pretty. She wore a simple black silk dress, perhaps in deference to Tilly's death, though the note of mourning was jarred by flamboyant aquamarine ear-rings and too much rouge.

形容詞

aquamarine (not comparable)

1. Of a bluish-green colour.

派生語

• Madagascar aquamarine

参考

• maxixe

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Aquamarine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “aquamarine”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.