The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἥλιος“sun”
- English todayheliolite
From helio- + -lite, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”); analogous to sunstone.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἥλιος all →
heliumhelioshelianthophobiahelio-heliodorheliometerheliostatheliotypyisohel
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.