Copperasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• coperas, copperose

語源

From 中期英語 coperas, coperose (“any metallic sulfate”), from Medieval Latin cuprosa directly or via Old French coperose, from Medieval Latin aqua cuprosa (“cupreous water”), from Latin cuprum (“copper”) + -osa (“-ose: forming related adjectives”). Fanciful derivations from cupreous terms involving Latin rosa (“rose”) are mistaken.

名詞

copperas (usually uncountable, plural copperases)

1. (historical, inexact) Any of various metallic sulphates formed from the reaction of sulfur with iron, zinc, or copper, especially (alchemy) solutions of such compounds misunderstood as a mediator or catalyst for the transmutation of iron into copper &c.

   Hyponyms: blue copperas, green copperas, yellow copperas, white copperas

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book 6, Chapter XII: "A Digression Concerning Blacknesse", p. 336:

     The ſecond way whereby bodies become blacke, is an Atramentous condition or mixture, that is a vitriolate or copperoſe quality conjoyning with a terreſtrious and aſtringent humidity, for ſo is Atramentum ſcriptorium, or writing Inke commonly made, by copperoſe caſt upon decoction or infuſion of galls... now artificiall copperoſe... is a rough and acrimonious kinde of salt drawne out of ferreous and eruginous earths, partaking chiefly of Iron and Copper, the blew of copper, the green moſt of Iron...

   • 1728, E. Chambers, Cyclopaedia, s.v. "Copperas":

     There is a Copperas of England, of Pisa, Germany, Cyprus, Hungary, and Italy, which only differ from each other in Colour and Perfection... The English Copperas is of a fine green; that of Cyprus and Hungary a sky-blue.

2. (archaic) Synonym of iron(II) sulfate.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     It were superfluous to describe the Process of making the Aqua fortis; it shall suffice to let you know, that our common Coperas makes this Aquafortis well enough for our purpose […]

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     […] what a change has introduced itself everywhere into human affairs! How human affairs shall now circulate everywhere not healthy life-blood in them, but, as it were, a detestable copperas banker’s ink;

使用する際の注意点

Despite the etymological and still apparent connection to copper sulphates, the usual specific reference to green iron sulphates in English has been continual from the earliest attestations, having already arisen in Greek and Latin from its greater general utility in dyeing and leather tanning, the mixture of copper and iron salts in naturally occurring sources, and general confusion of copper and iron pyrites.

派生語

参照

• “copperas, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “copperas”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Copperas”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “copperas”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.