"marcasite" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɑːkəsʌɪt/ [UK], /ˈmɑɹ.kə.sɑɪ̯t/ [US], /ˌmɑɹ.kəˈzit/ [US] Forms: marcasites [plural]
Etymology: From Medieval Latin marchasita et al., from Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā). Etymology templates: {{der|en|ML.|marchasita}} Medieval Latin marchasita, {{der|en|ar|مَرْقَشِيتَا}} Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} marcasite (countable and uncountable, plural marcasites)
  1. (mineralogy) The orthorhombic form of iron disulfide, FeS₂, occurring as yellow crystals. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Minerals Synonyms: white iron pyrite
    Sense id: en-marcasite-en-noun-QdCV~otP Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  2. (jewelry) Pyrite. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Jewelry
    Sense id: en-marcasite-en-noun-mFpVD5LO Topics: jewelry, lifestyle
  3. (historical) Any of various metal sulfides, usually iron sulfide minerals. Tags: countable, historical, uncountable Translations (mineral): مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā) [feminine] (Arabic), ܡܰܪܩܫܺܝܬܴܐ (marqəšīṯā) [Classical-Syriac, feminine] (Aramaic), מרקשיתא (marqəšīṯā) [feminine] (Aramaic), մարկազիտ (markazit) (Armenian), լուսաքար (lusakʻar) (Armenian), marcassita [feminine] (Catalan), markazit [masculine] (Czech), markasit [masculine] (Czech), markasiitti (Finnish), marcassite [feminine] (French), Markasit [masculine] (German), marcasite [feminine] (Italian), marchasita [feminine] (Latin), markasyt [masculine] (Polish), markazyt [masculine] (Polish), маркази́т (markazít) [masculine] (Russian), марка̀зӣт [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), марка̀сӣт [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), markàzīt [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), markàsīt [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), marcasita [feminine] (Spanish), margajita [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-marcasite-en-noun-Q1WxhHXG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 18 51 Disambiguation of 'mineral': 32 27 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: golden marcasite Related terms: pyrite

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.