The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἨώς“dawn”
- English todayeosphorite
From Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “dawn”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “bearing”) + -ite, in reference to the pink colour of the mineral.
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.