Citrine (colour) Citrine (colour) Citrine is a colour, the most common reference for which is certain coloured varieties of quartz which are a medium deep shade of golden yellow. Citrine has been summarized at various times as yellow, greenish-yellow, brownish yellow or orange. The original reference point for the citrine colour was the citron fruit. The first recorded use of "citrine" as a colour in English was in 1386. It was borrowed from a medieval Latin and classical Latin word with the same meaning. In late medieval and early modern English the citrine colour-name was applied in a wider variety of contexts
Ancient Hebrew writings generations before being committed to writing. Before the Aramaic-derived modern Hebrew alphabet was adopted circa the 5th century BCE, the Phoenician-derived Paleo-Hebrew script was used instead for writing, and a derivative of the script still survives to this day in the form of the Samaritan script. The Hebrew language developed out of the Canaanite language, and some scholars consider both Hebrew and Phoenician to have been essentially dialects of Cannaanite. The language variety in which the Masoretic biblical text is written is known as "Biblical Hebrew" or "Classical Hebrew" ( 10th century BCE – 1st century CE). Varieties of Hebrew