The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromδολερός“deceitful, deceptive”
- French · borrowed fromdolérite
- English todaydolerite
From French dolérite, from Ancient Greek δολερός (dolerós, “deceitful, deceptive”), because it was easily confounded with diorite, + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.