1550s (n.), 1560s (adj.), from Prussia + -an. Prussian blue pigment (1724) came to English from French bleu de Prusse, so called for being discovered in Berlin, the Prussian capital.
All in all, it seems that Prussian blue was synthesised for the first time around 1706 by the Swiss immigrant Johann Jacob Diesbach in Berlin. [Jens Bartoll and Bärbel Jackisch, "Prussian Blue: A Chronology of the Early Years," "Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung" 24, No. 1, 2010]
Early German sources refer to it as Preußisches Ultra-Marin and berliner blau. Prussic acid (1790), is from French acide prussique, so called in reference to prussian blue pigment, to which it is chemically related.
双语例句
1. The Prussian garrison at Charleroi was falling back.
普鲁士驻沙勒罗瓦的部队正在撤退。
来自柯林斯例句
2. It was the Prussian officers that provided the cement.
把他们紧密地结合起来的,是普鲁士的军官.
来自辞典例句
3. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
他应聘到柏林普鲁士科学院任教授.
来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
4. The Franco - Prussian war had sown seeds of enmity which were eventually to bear fruit.
普法战争播下仇恨的种子,后来终于结成恶果.
来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
5. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science in Berlin.
