The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΚᾰδμείᾱ
- Latin · derived fromcadmīa
- Medieval Latin · derived fromcalamīna
- French · borrowed fromcalamine
- English todaycalamine
From French calamine, from Medieval Latin calamīna, from Latin cadmīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kădmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Doublet of cadmia, calaminaris, and lapis calaminaris.
Words from the same roots
Latincadmīa all →
cadmialapis calaminaris
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.