Emerald

== English == === Etymology === From emerald. The Queensland town takes its name from the emerald and other precious stone deposits in the area and from the pastoral run Emerald Downs, a name chosen circa 1860 by pastoralist Peter Fitzallan MacDonald. It is unclear if emeralds were found in or around Emerald. The given name is a modern coinage from the name of the gemstone, representing a vernacular form of Esmeralda. === Proper noun === Emerald A town in Queensland, Australia. A town in the Shire of Cardinia and the Shire of Yarra Ranges, central Victoria, Australia A rural municipality in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Emerald No. 277. (rare) A female given name from English. 1954 Theodore Sturgeon, The Golden Helix, in Leo Marguelis:Three Times Infinity, Fawcett Publications 1958, page 109: The child, a girl, was albino like April, and had exactly April's deep red eyes. Sol and Libra named her Emerald, a green name and a ground-term rather than a sky-term, as if in open expression of the slow spell worked on them all by Viridis. === References ===