A.Word.A.Day --verdazurine

A.Word.A.Day

Home

Jul 10, 2025

This week’s theme
Words related to colors

This week’s words
fulvous
festucine
spadiceous
verdazurine
versicolored

Photo: Tiket2 / Wikimedia

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(vuhrd-AZH-uh-reen)

MEANING:

adjective: Bluish-green; sea-green.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Italian verdazzurro (sea-green), from verde (green) + azzurro (blue). Earliest documented use: 1681.

USAGE:

“The water turns verdazurine this time of year.”
Peter Geye; A Lesser Light; University of Minnesota Press; 2025.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full. -Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)

We need your help

Help us continue to spread the magic of words to readers everywhere

Donate