verdigris

• n. パティーナ、[材料]銅の緑色、塩基性炭酸銅

古フランス語のverte de Grece、ギリシャの緑（viridis）から。

verdigris

verdigris: [14] Etymologically, verdigris means ‘green of Greece’. It comes from Old French vertegrez, a conflation of vert de Grece ‘green of Greece’ (vert came from Latin viridis ‘green’, which also gave English verdant [16] and verdure [14] and may be related to Old English wīse ‘sprout, stalk’, Old Norse vísir ‘bud, sprout’, and Lithuanian veisti ‘propagate’). The reason for the application of the term to the patina on copper is not known.
=> verdant, verdure

verdigris (n.)

c. 1300, vertegrez, from Old French verte grez (13c.), verte de Grece (late 12c.), literally "green of Greece," from obsolete French verd, from Latin viridis (see verdure). The reason for it being called that is not known. In other languages, "green of Spain" (German grünspan, Danish spanskgr?nt, Dutch spaansch-groen), from Medieval Latin viride Hispanum. Current spelling in English is from 1789. In chemistry, confined to a basic copper acetate; popularly applied to the green encrustation on copper or brass exposed to the air.

1. His pockets are full of red lead and verdigris .

彼のポケットには鉛丹と銅緑がいっぱい詰まっている。

2. Verdigris has spread all over that abandoned copper pot.

廃棄された銅瓶には銅錆がいっぱい生えていた。

3.The latter has neither hens nor chicks，and only thinks of himself and perspires verdigris .

その風信雄鶏には雌鶏もひよこもいない。彼は自分のことばかり考えて、青々としている！