Australia

la-proper noun

Austrālia f sg (genitive Austrāliae); first declension

Austrālia (canonical feminine singular)
Austrāliae (genitive)
Austrālia (nominative singular)
Austrāliae (genitive singular)
Austrāliae (dative singular)
Austrāliam (accusative singular)
Austrāliā (ablative singular)
Austrālia (singular vocative)

[äu̯s̠ˈt̪räːlʲiä]

From austrālis (“southern”) + a latinization of Ancient Greek -ία (-ía).

Australia (A country in Oceania comprising the islands of Australia, Tasmania and other smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as a former colony in the British Empire)

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the islands of Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


mica

la-noun

mīca f (genitive mīcae); first declension

mīca (canonical feminine)
mīcae (genitive)
mīca (nominative singular)
mīcae (nominative plural)
mīcae (genitive singular)
mīcārum (genitive plural)
mīcae (dative singular)
mīcīs (dative plural)
mīcam (accusative singular)
mīcās (accusative plural)
mīcā (ablative singular)
mīcīs (ablative plural)
mīca (singular vocative)
mīcae (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance:

Romanian: mică

Italian: mica

Old French: mie
French: mie

Old Galician-Portuguese: miga

Galician: miga

Portuguese: miga

Old Spanish: miga

Spanish: miga

→ English: mica

→ French: mica

→ Galician: mica

→ Portuguese: mica

→ Spanish: mica

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mīcca

Aragonese: mica (in no mica "not")

Old French: miche

French: miche

→ Basque: mitsika

→ Breton: méchen

→ Portuguese: micha

Italian: frammica (“crumb”) (Marche)

Ligurian: micca (“a small loaf”) (Genoa)

Piedmontese: mica

Old Occitan:

Catalan: mica

Occitan: mica

→ Alemannic German: Miigge

→ Dutch: mik

→ West Frisian: mik

Calabrian dialect
Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch

Uncertain:
* traditionally derived from Proto-Italic *(s)mīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyk- (“small, thin, delicate”), related to Ancient Greek (σ)μῑκρός ((s)mīkrós) – details there.
* in view of meaning (1), De Vaan (2008) with Nyman (1987) prefer Proto-Italic *meikā (“a glittering particle”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyk- (“to blink”), whence also micō.
Attested from Cato onwards.
A number of Romance forms, e.g. Romanian mic, Neapolitan miccu, Calabrian/Sicilian miccu, reflect an unattested adjective *mīccus. This is probably unrelated, being a borrowing from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós), variant of μῑκρός (mīkrós, “small”); the form *mīcca is associated with the meaning “loaf of bread” particularly in Gallo-Romance and Gallo-Italic.


glis

la-noun

glis f (genitive glitis); third declension

glitis (genitive)
glis (nominative singular)
glitēs (nominative plural)
glitis (genitive singular)
glitum (genitive plural)
glitī (dative singular)
glitibus (dative plural)
glitem (accusative singular)
glitēs (accusative plural)
glite (ablative singular)
glitibus (ablative plural)
glis (singular vocative)
glitēs (plural vocative)

From Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”). See also Latin glūten and glutus.


marga

la-noun

marga f (genitive margae); first declension

margae (genitive)
marga (nominative singular)
margae (nominative plural)
margae (genitive singular)
margārum (genitive plural)
margae (dative singular)
margīs (dative plural)
margam (accusative singular)
margās (accusative plural)
margā (ablative singular)
margīs (ablative plural)
marga (singular vocative)
margae (plural vocative)

From Celtic, probably Gaulish (Pliny). The word has been compared to Breton marg as well as the placename Margidinum; compare Welsh marian (“rocks, pebbles, grit”) from Proto-Brythonic *marɣ-, but probably ultimately of Pre-Celtic substrate origin. Compare Aldo murgia.

Old French: marleFrench: marne→ Middle English: marle

merleEnglish: marlScots: marlYola: maarl→ Irish: marla


marmor

marmor n (genitive marmoris); third declension

marmoris (genitive)
marmor (nominative singular)
marmora (nominative plural)
marmoris (genitive singular)
marmorum (genitive plural)
marmorī (dative singular)
marmoribus (dative plural)
marmor (accusative singular)
marmora (accusative plural)
marmore (ablative singular)
marmoribus (ablative plural)
marmor (singular vocative)
marmora (plural vocative)

Lombard: marmor

→ Albanian: marmur

Aragonese: marbre

Aromanian: marmurã, marmuri

Asturian: mármole, mármol

Catalan: marbre

→ English: marble (via Old French)

→ Finnish: marmori

→ Norwegian: marmor

French: marbre

Friulian: marmul

Galician: mármore

German: Marmor

→ Irish: marmar

Italian: marmo

Occitan: marbre, marme

→ Polish: marmur

Portuguese: mármore

Romanian: marmură

Romansch: marmel

→ Russian: мрамор (mramor)

Sardinian: màrmuri, màrmuru

Sicilian: màrmuru

Spanish: mármol

→ Swedish: marmor

Venetan: marmo, màrmaro, màlmaro

→ Welsh: marmor

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros, “marble, crystalline rock”).


polia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολιά (poliá).

Colos appellāvit drosolithum herbāceus, melichrum melleus, cuius plūra genera, melichlōrum geminus, parte flāvus, parte melleus, crociān crocī similitūdine quādam spargente, poliān canitiē, spartopolian rariōre.

c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.73

The colour gave name to the grass-green dewstone, to the honey melichrus, who has many sorts, the twin-coloured melichlorus, part yellow, part honey, the crocia with something like saffron sprinkled on it, the polia with grayness, the spartopolia with the same, more dispersed.


telirrhizos

la-noun

telirrhizos f (genitive telirrhizī); second declension

telirrhizī (genitive)
telirrhizos (nominative singular)
telirrhizī (nominative plural)
telirrhizī (genitive singular)
telirrhizōrum (genitive plural)
telirrhizō (dative singular)
telirrhizīs (dative plural)
telirrhizon (accusative singular)
telirrhizōs (accusative plural)
telirrhizō (ablative singular)
telirrhizīs (ablative plural)
telirrhize (singular vocative)
telirrhizī (plural vocative)

[t̪ɛlʲɪrˈrɪz̪d̪͡z̪ɔs̠]

(mineralogy) a kind of precious stone (of uncertain type)


thelyrrhizos

thelyrrhizos f (genitive thelyrrhizī); second declension

thelyrrhizī (genitive)
thelyrrhizos (nominative singular)
thelyrrhizī (nominative plural)
thelyrrhizī (genitive singular)
thelyrrhizōrum (genitive plural)
thelyrrhizō (dative singular)
thelyrrhizīs (dative plural)
thelyrrhizon (accusative singular)
thelyrrhizōs (accusative plural)
thelyrrhizō (ablative singular)
thelyrrhizīs (ablative plural)
thelyrrhize (singular vocative)
thelyrrhizī (plural vocative)

[t̪ʰɛlʲʏrˈrɪz̪d̪͡z̪ɔs̠]

(mineralogy) Alternative form of telirrhizos


dryitis

dryītis f (genitive dryītidis); third declension

dryītis (canonical feminine)
dryītidis (genitive)
dryītis (nominative singular)
dryītidēs (nominative plural)
dryītidis (genitive singular)
dryītidum (genitive plural)
dryītidī (dative singular)
dryītidibus (dative plural)
dryītidem (accusative singular)
dryītidēs (accusative plural)
dryītide (ablative singular)
dryītidibus (ablative plural)
dryītis (singular vocative)
dryītidēs (plural vocative)


paneros

panerōs f (genitive panerōtis); third declension

panerōs (canonical feminine)
panerōtis (genitive)
panerōs (nominative singular)
panerōtēs (nominative plural)
panerōtis (genitive singular)
panerōtum (genitive plural)
panerōtī (dative singular)
panerōtibus (dative plural)
panerōtem (accusative singular)
panerōtēs (accusative plural)
panerōte (ablative singular)
panerōtibus (ablative plural)
panerōs (singular vocative)
panerōtēs (plural vocative)

(mineralogy) a precious stone reputed to make the bearer fruitful


sideritis

sidērītis f (genitive sidērītidis); third declension

sidērītis (canonical feminine)
sidērītidis (genitive)
sidērītis (nominative singular)
sidērītidēs (nominative plural)
sidērītidis (genitive singular)
sidērītidum (genitive plural)
sidērītidī (dative singular)
sidērītidibus (dative plural)
sidērītidem (accusative singular)
sidērītidēs (accusative plural)
sidērītide (ablative singular)
sidērītidibus (ablative plural)
sidērītis (singular vocative)
sidērītidēs (plural vocative)

[s̠ɪd̪eːˈriːt̪ɪs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σιδηρῖτις (sidērîtis).


subductio

subductiō f (genitive subductiōnis); third declension

subductiō (canonical feminine)
subductiōnis (genitive)
subductiō (nominative singular)
subductiōnēs (nominative plural)
subductiōnis (genitive singular)
subductiōnum (genitive plural)
subductiōnī (dative singular)
subductiōnibus (dative plural)
subductiōnem (accusative singular)
subductiōnēs (accusative plural)
subductiōne (ablative singular)
subductiōnibus (ablative plural)
subductiō (singular vocative)
subductiōnēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: subducció

French: subduction

Italian: subduzione

Portuguese: subdução

Russian: субдукция (subdukcija)

Spanish: subducción


lapis calaminaris

lapis calamīnāris (canonical masculine)
lapis calamīnāris (nominative singular)
lapidēs calamīnārēs (nominative plural)
lapidis calamīnāris (genitive singular)
lapidum calamīnārium (genitive plural)
lapidī calamīnārī (dative singular)
lapidibus calamīnāribus (dative plural)
lapidem calamīnārem (accusative singular)
lapidēs calamīnārēs (accusative plural)
lapidēs calamīnārīs (accusative plural)
lapide calamīnāre (ablative singular)
lapidibus calamīnāribus (ablative plural)
lapis calamīnāris (singular vocative)
lapidēs calamīnārēs (plural vocative)

(mineralogy, Medieval Latin) Synonym of cadmia, calamine


santerna

santerna f (genitive santernae); first declension

santernae (genitive)
santerna (nominative singular)
santernae (nominative plural)
santernae (genitive singular)
santernārum (genitive plural)
santernae (dative singular)
santernīs (dative plural)
santernam (accusative singular)
santernās (accusative plural)
santernā (ablative singular)
santernīs (ablative plural)
santerna (singular vocative)
santernae (plural vocative)

Unknown, possibly from Etruscan 𐌆𐌀𐌌𐌈𐌉𐌂 (zamθic, “golden”). See basterna, lacerna, vīburnum and similar words, suspected to be of such an origin.


sphragis

sphrāgis f (genitive sphrāgidis); third declension

sphrāgis (canonical feminine)
sphrāgidis (genitive)
sphrāgis (nominative singular)
sphrāgidēs (nominative plural)
sphrāgidis (genitive singular)
sphrāgidum (genitive plural)
sphrāgidī (dative singular)
sphrāgidibus (dative plural)
sphrāgidem (accusative singular)
sphrāgidēs (accusative plural)
sphrāgide (ablative singular)
sphrāgidibus (ablative plural)
sphrāgis (singular vocative)
sphrāgidēs (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σφραγίς (sphragís, “seal”).


socondios

la-noun

socondios f (genitive socondiī); second declension

socondiī (genitive)
socondios (nominative singular)
socondiī (nominative plural)
socondiī (genitive singular)
socondiōrum (genitive plural)
socondiō (dative singular)
socondiīs (dative plural)
socondion (accusative singular)
socondiōs (accusative plural)
socondiō (ablative singular)
socondiīs (ablative plural)
socondie (singular vocative)
socondiī (plural vocative)

[s̠ɔˈkɔn̪d̪iɔs̠]

Apparently related to socos (“the color of an amethyst from India”).


melichrysos

melichrȳsos m (genitive melichrȳsī); second declension

melichrȳsos (canonical masculine)
melichrȳsī (genitive)
melichrȳsos (nominative singular)
melichrȳsī (nominative plural)
melichrȳsī (genitive singular)
melichrȳsōrum (genitive plural)
melichrȳsō (dative singular)
melichrȳsīs (dative plural)
melichrȳson (accusative singular)
melichrȳsōs (accusative plural)
melichrȳsō (ablative singular)
melichrȳsīs (ablative plural)
melichrȳse (singular vocative)
melichrȳsī (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μελίχρυσος (melíkhrusos).


sangenon

sangenon n (genitive sangenī); second declension

sangenī (genitive)
sangenon (nominative singular)
sangena (nominative plural)
sangenī (genitive singular)
sangenōrum (genitive plural)
sangenō (dative singular)
sangenīs (dative plural)
sangenon (accusative singular)
sangena (accusative plural)
sangenō (ablative singular)
sangenīs (ablative plural)
sangenon (singular vocative)
sangena (plural vocative)


leros

lēros f (genitive lērī); second declension

lēros (canonical feminine)
lērī (genitive)
lēros (nominative singular)
lērī (nominative plural)
lērī (genitive singular)
lērōrum (genitive plural)
lērō (dative singular)
lērīs (dative plural)
lēron (accusative singular)
lērōs (accusative plural)
lērō (ablative singular)
lērīs (ablative plural)
lēre (singular vocative)
lērī (plural vocative)


cadmitis

cadmītis f (genitive cadmītis); third declension

cadmītis (canonical feminine)
cadmītis (genitive)
cadmītis (nominative singular)
cadmītēs (nominative plural)
cadmītis (genitive singular)
cadmītium (genitive plural)
cadmītī (dative singular)
cadmītibus (dative plural)
cadmītem (accusative singular)
cadmītēs (accusative plural)
cadmītīs (accusative plural)
cadmīte (ablative singular)
cadmītibus (ablative plural)
cadmītis (singular vocative)
cadmītēs (plural vocative)


ostracitis

ostracītis f (genitive ostracītidis); third declension

ostracītis (canonical feminine)
ostracītidis (genitive)
ostracītis (nominative singular)
ostracītidēs (nominative plural)
ostracītidis (genitive singular)
ostracītidum (genitive plural)
ostracītidī (dative singular)
ostracītidibus (dative plural)
ostracītidem (accusative singular)
ostracītidēs (accusative plural)
ostracītide (ablative singular)
ostracītidibus (ablative plural)
ostracītis (singular vocative)
ostracītidēs (plural vocative)

[ɔs̠t̪räˈkiːt̪ɪs̠]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀστρᾰκῖτῐς (ostrăkîtĭs).


capnitis

capnītis f (genitive capnītidis); third declension

capnītis (canonical feminine)
capnītidis (genitive)
capnītis (nominative singular)
capnītidēs (nominative plural)
capnītidis (genitive singular)
capnītidum (genitive plural)
capnītidī (dative singular)
capnītidibus (dative plural)
capnītidem (accusative singular)
capnītidēs (accusative plural)
capnītide (ablative singular)
capnītidibus (ablative plural)
capnītis (singular vocative)
capnītidēs (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καπνῖτις (kapnîtis, “smoky”).


enorchis

la-noun

enorchis f (genitive enorchis); third declension

enorchis (genitive)
enorchis (nominative singular)
enorchēs (nominative plural)
enorchis (genitive singular)
enorchium (genitive plural)
enorchī (dative singular)
enorchibus (dative plural)
enorchem (accusative singular)
enorchēs (accusative plural)
enorchīs (accusative plural)
enorche (ablative singular)
enorchibus (ablative plural)
enorchis (singular vocative)
enorchēs (plural vocative)

[ɛˈnɔrkʰɪs̠]


urium

ūrium n (genitive ūriī or ūrī); second declension

ūrium (canonical neuter)
ūriī (genitive)
ūrī (genitive)
ūrium (nominative singular)
ūria (nominative plural)
ūriī (genitive singular)
ūrī (genitive singular)
ūriōrum (genitive plural)
ūriō (dative singular)
ūriīs (dative plural)
ūrium (accusative singular)
ūria (accusative plural)
ūriō (ablative singular)
ūriīs (ablative plural)
ūrium (singular vocative)
ūria (plural vocative)

Possibly from Basque ur (or rather, a Proto-Basque form of said term).

(mineralogy) The earth that envelops the ore


talutium

talutium n (genitive talutiī or talutī); second declension

talutiī (genitive)
talutī (genitive)
talutium (nominative singular)
talutia (nominative plural)
talutiī (genitive singular)
talutī (genitive singular)
talutiōrum (genitive plural)
talutiō (dative singular)
talutiīs (dative plural)
talutium (accusative singular)
talutia (accusative plural)
talutiō (ablative singular)
talutiīs (ablative plural)
talutium (singular vocative)
talutia (plural vocative)

[t̪äˈɫ̪ʊt̪iʊ̃ˑ]

Maybe from Celtic/Gaulish; compare Proto-Celtic *talamū (“earth”). Compare alutiae.

(mineralogy) The superficial indication of the presence of gold under the earth


tasconium

tasconium n (genitive tasconiī or tasconī); second declension

tasconiī (genitive)
tasconī (genitive)
tasconium (nominative singular)
tasconia (nominative plural)
tasconiī (genitive singular)
tasconī (genitive singular)
tasconiōrum (genitive plural)
tasconiō (dative singular)
tasconiīs (dative plural)
tasconium (accusative singular)
tasconia (accusative plural)
tasconiō (ablative singular)
tasconiīs (ablative plural)
tasconium (singular vocative)
tasconia (plural vocative)

[t̪äs̠ˈkɔniʊ̃ˑ]

Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Compare Spanish tosca (“tuff”).

(geology) A white kind of earth resembling clay


segutilum

segutilum n (genitive segutilī); second declension

segutilī (genitive)
segutilum (nominative singular)
segutila (nominative plural)
segutilī (genitive singular)
segutilōrum (genitive plural)
segutilō (dative singular)
segutilīs (dative plural)
segutilum (accusative singular)
segutila (accusative plural)
segutilō (ablative singular)
segutilīs (ablative plural)
segutilum (singular vocative)
segutila (plural vocative)

[s̠ɛˈɡʊt̪ɪɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]

Possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

(geology) A kind of earth, which was supposed to indicate the presence of native gold


sandaraca

sandaraca f (genitive sandaracae); first declension

sandaracae (genitive)
sandaraca (nominative singular)
sandaracae (nominative plural)
sandaracae (genitive singular)
sandaracārum (genitive plural)
sandaracae (dative singular)
sandaracīs (dative plural)
sandaracam (accusative singular)
sandaracās (accusative plural)
sandaracā (ablative singular)
sandaracīs (ablative plural)
sandaraca (singular vocative)
sandaracae (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: sandàraca

→ English: sandarac

→ French: sandaraque

→ German: Sandarak

→ Italian: sandaraca

→ Portuguese: sandaraca

→ Spanish: sandáraca

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σανδαράκη (sandarákē).


mesozoicus

la-adj

mesozōicus (feminine mesozōica, neuter mesozōicum); first/second-declension adjective

mesozōicus (canonical)
mesozōica (feminine)
mesozōicum (neuter)
mesozōicus (masculine nominative singular)
mesozōica (feminine nominative singular)
mesozōicum (neuter nominative singular)
mesozōicī (masculine nominative singular)
mesozōicae (feminine nominative plural)
mesozōica (neuter nominative plural)
mesozōicī (genitive masculine singular)
mesozōicae (feminine genitive singular)
mesozōicī (genitive neuter singular)
mesozōicōrum (genitive masculine singular)
mesozōicārum (feminine genitive plural)
mesozōicōrum (genitive neuter plural)
mesozōicō (dative masculine singular)
mesozōicae (dative feminine singular)
mesozōicō (dative neuter singular)
mesozōicīs (dative feminine masculine neuter)
mesozōicum (accusative masculine singular)
mesozōicam (accusative feminine singular)
mesozōicum (accusative neuter singular)
mesozōicōs (accusative masculine singular)
mesozōicās (accusative feminine plural)
mesozōica (accusative neuter plural)
mesozōicō (ablative masculine singular)
mesozōicā (ablative feminine singular)
mesozōicō (ablative neuter singular)
mesozōicīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
mesozōice (masculine singular vocative)
mesozōica (feminine singular vocative)
mesozōicum (neuter singular vocative)
mesozōicī (masculine singular vocative)
mesozōicae (feminine plural vocative)
mesozōica (neuter plural vocative)

[mɛs̠ɔz̪ˈd̪͡z̪oːɪkʊs̠]

From English Mesozoic + -us or German mesozoisch + -icus. Equivalent to Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos) + Ancient Greek ζῷον (zôion) + Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós). Compare ζωϊκός (zōïkós).

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(New Latin, geology, paleontology) Mesozoic


marmor Pentelicum

la-noun

marmor Pentelicum n (genitive marmōris Pentelicī); third declension

marmōris Pentelicī (genitive)
marmor Pentelicum (nominative singular)
marmōra Pentelica (nominative plural)
marmōris Pentelicī (genitive singular)
marmōrum Pentelicōrum (genitive plural)
marmōrī Pentelicō (dative singular)
marmōribus Pentelicīs (dative plural)
marmor Pentelicum (accusative singular)
marmōra Pentelica (accusative plural)
marmōre Pentelicō (ablative singular)
marmōribus Pentelicīs (ablative plural)
marmor Pentelicum (singular vocative)
marmōra Pentelica (plural vocative)

→ English: Pentelic marble (calque)

marmor (“marble”) + Pentelicus (“Pentelic”).

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Fragmenta duo tabulae marmoris Pentelici inventa in arce Athenarum.

1888, Guilelmus Dittenberger, Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum, volume 1, page 301:

Two fragments of Pentelic marble tablets found in the citadel of Athens.