prasine

From a combination of Anglo-Norman prame, Middle French prame (from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɹeɪziːn/

prasine (plural prasines)

1. (obsolete) A green gem; an emerald. [14th-16th c.]
2. (obsolete) A type of green pigment. [14th-17th c.]
3. (mineralogy) Pseudomalachite. [from 19th c.]
   • 1864, Chemical News, 5 Nov 1864:

     It is possible that just as chrysocolla is silicated malachite, so prasine is phosphated malachite; the physical appearance of these minerals strongly confirms this view.

prasine (comparative more prasine, superlative most prasine)

1. (now rare) Leek-green. [from 14th c.]
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 284:

     He recalled, in passing, the sweetness in his lap, her round little bottom, her prasine eyes as she turned toward him and the receding road.

• leek

• Persian, arpines, asperin, paniers, rapines, separin

prasine

1. vocative masculine singular of prasinus