The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromαἱματίτης
- Middle French · borrowed fromhematite
- English todayhematite
From Middle French hematite, from Latin (lapis) haematites, from Ancient Greek αἱματίτης (haimatítēs) λίθος (líthos, “blood-red stone”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, hemat- + -ite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.