opalescent

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English

Etymology

From opal +‎ -escent. First attested in 1813.

Pronunciation

Adjective

opalescent (comparative more opalescent, superlative most opalescent)

  1. Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.

Translations

French

Etymology

From opale +‎ -escent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.pa.lɛ.sɑ̃/ ~ /ɔ.pa.le.sɑ̃/
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Adjective

opalescent (feminine opalescente, masculine plural opalescents, feminine plural opalescentes)

  1. opalescent
    • 2017, Jeanne Bocquenet-Carle, Que tombent les étoiles:
      Dehors, le soleil ne déclinait plus, fixant les heures dans une clarté constante. Dix et seize heures diffusaient la même couleur. En marchant dans la lumière opalescente, elle ressentit un picotement. Un fourmillement qui se répandait sur sa peau et que chaque femme d’Ouessant connaissait bien.
      Outside, the sun did not go down, fixing the hours in a constant clarity. Ten in the morning and four in the afternoon cast the same colour. Walking in the opalescent light, she felt a tingle. A prickling which spread over her skin and which every woman in Ushant knew well.
    • 1893, Revue médicale de la Suisse romande, volume 13, page 336:
      On procède immédiatement au barbotage dans une solution d’acétate de plomb; il se produit rapidement une opalescence laiteuse par précipitation de carbonate de plomb, puis deux minutes environ après l’injection, le liquide opalescent vire au gris, puis au brun très clair (café au lait).
      We immediately proceed to bubbling in a solution of lead acetate; a milky opalescence quickly develops by precipitation of lead carbonate, then about two minutes after injection the opalescent liquid turns gray, then a very light brown (coffee with milk).

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Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French opalescent.

Adjective

opalescent m or n (feminine singular opalescentă, masculine plural opalescenți, feminine and neuter plural opalescente)

  1. opalescent

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite opalescent opalescentă opalescenți opalescente
definite opalescentul opalescenta opalescenții opalescentele
genitive-
dative
indefinite opalescent opalescente opalescenți opalescente
definite opalescentului opalescentei opalescenților opalescentelor