The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβαθύς“heavy”
- English todaybarysilite
From Ancient Greek βαθύς (bathús, “heavy”), the inclusion of (SI)licon, and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekβαθύς all →
isobathbathukolpicbathy-isothermobathtopobathy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.