Etymology

barite

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Today it means: A mineral, barium sulphate, with the chemical formula BaSO₄. Full definition →

French barote ← Ancient Greek βαρύτης
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβαρύτης“heaviness”
  2. French · borrowed frombarote
  3. English todaybarite

Alteration of baryte, from French barote, 1782 coinage from Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús) + -της (-tēs). By surface analysis, bar- + -ite.

Words from the same roots

Frenchbarote all →

baryta

Ancient Greekβαρύτης all →

barytabarytes

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