lapis lazuli

Medieval Latin lapis (“stone”) +‎ lazulī (“heavens, skies”, genitive singular of lazulum). Compare English azure.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlapɪs ˈlazjʊlaɪ/, /ˌlapɪs ˈlazjʊli/
• (General American) enPR: lăp'ĭs lăzʹ(y)ə-lē, -lăzʹ(y)ə-lī, -lăzhʹə-lē, -lăzhʹə-lī, IPA^(key): /ˌlæpɪs ˈlæz(j)əli/, /-ˈlæz(j)əlaɪ/, /-ˈlæʒəli/, /-ˈlæʒəlaɪ/
• 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

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

   lapis lazuli colour:  

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

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}
• 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