Etymology

dacite

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Today it means: An igneous, volcanic rock with a high iron content. Full definition →

German Dazit ← Latin Dācia
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromDācia“greater Romania”
  2. German · borrowed fromDazit
  3. English todaydacite

From German Dazit, from Latin Dācia (“greater Romania”). First used in 1863 by Austrian geologists Franz von Hauer and Guido Stache, in a description of the geology of Transylvania.

Words from the same roots

LatinDācia all →

DaciaDacian

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.