amethystus

ămĕthystus, i, f., = ἀμέθυστος.

• The amethyst, a precious stone of violet-blue color, Plin. 37, 9, 40, § 121 sqq.; Vulg. Exod. 28, 19; ib. Apoc. 21, 20.—
• II A kind of vine, Col. 3, 2, 24; cf. Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 31.

amethystus, ī, f. (ἀμέθυστος, ἡ, dem Rausch widerstehend), I) der Amethyst, ein violetter Halbedelstein, aber trüber u. fleckiger als der Hyazinth, der eig. unser Amethyst ist, Plin. 37, 121 sqq (das. § 124 auch über den Namen). Ov. art. am. 3, 181. Isid. 16, 9, 1 (wo masc.). – II) eine Rebenart, die guten, aber nicht berauschenden Wein lieferte, rein lat. inerticula gen., Col. 3, 2, 24; vgl. Plin. 14, 21. Isid. 17, 5, 24 (verbessert aus Col. 3, 2, 24: die Hdschrn. u. Otto amaracion?).

amethystus, ~a [ἀμέθυστος] , amethyst. topaziorum flamma vel ametistorum viola W. Malm. GR IV 337; 1245 in pede calicis apponuntur amatiste (Invent. S. Paul.) Arch. L 464; 1267 una amatista in capsa aurea CalPat 138.

ămĕthystus (16) ( -os ), ī, f. , ¶ 1 améthyste : Plin. 37, 121 ¶ 2 muflier [plante] : Ps. Apul. Herb. 86.

amethystus , i. m.
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ămĕthystus, i, f.: ametista (pietra preziosa).

Amethystus

(ἀμέθυστον or -ος). The amethyst, a precious stone of a purple or violet colour, in different degrees of deepness. In modern mineralogy, the name has been applied to two precious stones of essentially different natures: (1) the Oriental amethyst, which is a rare variety of adamantine spar or corundum; and

(2) the Occidental or common amethyst. The ancients, on the other hand, reckoned five species, differing in degrees of colour. Their Indian amethyst, to which Pliny assigns the first rank among purple or violet-coloured gems, appears to have been our Oriental species, which is nothing more than a violet-coloured sapphire. We see our amethyst, indeed, plainly indicated in one of the reasons assigned by Pliny for its name, that it does not reach the colour of wine (ἀ, priv., and μέθυ, wine), but first fades into violet. He afterwards suggests another, which was the more common derivation, saying that the Magi falsely asserted that these gems were preservative against intoxication (ἀ, priv., and μεθύω, to intoxicate). See Gemma.