The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχλωρός“green”
- English todaychlorastrolite
From Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “green”) + ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) (in allusion to its appearance) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekχλωρός all →
chlorinechlorellachloasmachloremiachlorenchymachloro-chloroxiphitechrysochlore
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.