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![]() Romance speakers may have perceived the sound as the initial phoneme of the definitive article in their respective language. The dropping of the initial l in Romance languages may be a case of the linguistic phenomenon known as rebracketing, i.e. ![]() The French azur, the Italian azzurro, the Polish lazur, Romanian azur and azuriu, the Portuguese and Spanish azul, Hungarian azúr, and the Catalan atzur, all come from the name and color of lapis lazuli. The name of the stone came to be associated with its color. Lapis is the Latin word for "stone" and lāzulī is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin lāzulum, which is taken from the Arabic لازورد lāzaward ( listen), itself from the Persian لاژورد lāžaward, which is the name of the stone in Persian and also of a place where lapis lazuli was mined. The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. In the X11 color system, which became a model for early web colors, azure is depicted as a pale cyan or white cyan.Įtymology and history A slab of lapis lazuli, the mineral from which azure took its name In the RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a television or computer screen, azure is created by adding a 50% of green light to a 100% of blue light. On the RGB color wheel, "azure" ( hexadecimal #0080FF) is defined as the color at 210 degrees, i.e., the hue halfway between blue and cyan. ![]() It is often described as the color of the sky on a clear day. Īzure ( / ˈ æ ʒ ər, ˈ eɪ ʒ ər/ AZH-ər, AY-zhər, UK also / ˈ æ z jʊər, ˈ eɪ z jʊər/ AZ-ure, AY-zure) is the color between cyan and blue on the spectrum of visible light. The colour halfway between blue and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 0080FF. On the RGB and CMYK color wheel, Azure is defined as the colour halfway between blue and cyan. ![]()
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