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The color azure ultimately takes its name from the vivid-blue gemstone lapis lazuli, a metamorphic rock. Lapis is the Latin word for "stone" and lāzulī is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin lāzulum , which is taken from the Arabic لازورد lāzaward [laːzwrd] ( listen ⓘ ), itself from the Persian لاژورد lāžaward , which ...
Spanish blue is the color that is called Azul (the Spanish word for "blue") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm. It is a shade of azure. [citation needed]
Cerulean. Cerulean (/ səˈruːliən /), also spelled caerulean, is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue, and may be mixed as well with the hue of green. The first recorded use of cerulean as a colour name in English was in 1590. [1] The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus ...
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Maya blue (Spanish: azul maya) is a unique bright azure blue pigment manufactured by cultures of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, such as the Mayas and Aztecs, during a period extending from approximately the 8th century to around 1860 CE. It is found in mural paintings on architectural buildings, ceramic pieces ...
In heraldry, the word azure is used for blue. [9] In Russian, Spanish, [10] Mongolian, Irish, and some other languages, there is no single word for blue, but rather different words for light blue (голубой, goluboj; Celeste) and dark blue (синий, sinij; Azul) (see Colour term).
In heraldry, azure (/ ˈæʒər, ˈeɪʒər / AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also / ˈæzjʊər, ˈeɪzjʊər / AZ-ure, AY-zure) [1][2][3] is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else is marked with either az. or b. as an ...
Very light bluish green. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Celeste (Spanish: [θeˈleste, se-], Italian: [tʃeˈlɛste], English: / sɪˈlɛst /) is the colloquial name for the pale turquoise blue colour. The same word, meaning "of the sky", is used in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian for the colour. Etymologically, it is derived by Latin term ...
The notion of "green" in modern European languages corresponds to light wavelengths of about 520–570 nm, but many historical and non-European languages make other choices, e.g. using a term for the range of ca. 450–530 nm ("blue/green") and another for ca. 530–590 nm ("green/yellow"). In many languages, the colors described in English as ...