The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromαν-“not”
- English todayanorthite
From Ancient Greek αν- (an-, “not”) + ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) "not perpendicular; less than straight", in reference to its odd.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
anorthite
Today it means: A variety of plagioclase feldspar, the calcium endmember of that series. Full definition →
Ancient Greek αν-