The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromβαρύτης“heaviness”
- French · borrowed frombarote
- New Latin · borrowed frombaryta
- English todaybaryta
From New Latin baryta, from 18c. Latinization of French barote, 1782 coinage from Ancient Greek βαρύτης (barútēs, “heaviness”), from βαρύς (barús) + -της (-tēs).
Words from the same roots
Frenchbarote all →
barite
Ancient Greekβαρύτης all →
baritebarytes
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.