blende

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German Blende, from blenden (“deceive”) (because it resembles galena).

Pronunciation

Noun

blende (countable and uncountable, plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) sphalerite (a naturally-occurring sulfide of zinc)
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 310:
      The procedure up here with ordinary local zinc blende had been straightforward—first you got the sulfur to go off by roasting the blende to zinc oxide, and then you reduced the oxide to zinc metal.

Derived terms

Translations

sphalerite — see sphalerite

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.də/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: blen‧de
  • Rhymes: -ɛndə

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Blende.

Noun

blende f (uncountable)

  1. metallic sulphide, in particular blende
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

blende

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of blenden

French

Pronunciation

Noun

blende m (plural blendes)

  1. (mineralogy) blende

Further reading

German

Pronunciation

Verb

blende

  1. inflection of blenden:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Blende, from blenden (“to blind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

blende (plural blendék)

  1. (photography) aperture (the opening of a photographic lens that can be adjusted to control the amount of light passing through)
    Synonym: rekesz

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative blende blendék
accusative blendét blendéket
dative blendének blendéknek
instrumental blendével blendékkel
causal-final blendéért blendékért
translative blendévé blendékké
terminative blendéig blendékig
essive-formal blendeként blendékként
essive-modal — —
inessive blendében blendékben
superessive blendén blendéken
adessive blendénél blendéknél
illative blendébe blendékbe
sublative blendére blendékre
allative blendéhez blendékhez
elative blendéből blendékből
delative blendéről blendékről
ablative blendétől blendéktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		blendéé blendéké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		blendééi blendékéi
Possessive forms of blende
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. blendém blendéim
2nd person sing. blendéd blendéid
3rd person sing. blendéje blendéi
1st person plural blendénk blendéink
2nd person plural blendétek blendéitek
3rd person plural blendéjük blendéik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • blende in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈblɛn.de/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnde
  • Hyphenation: blèn‧de

Noun

blende f

  1. plural of blenda
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