The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὁμός“same, together”
- English todayhomilite
From homi- + -lite, with homi- being an alteration of homo-. From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same, together”) and λίθος (líthos, “stone”), because of its association with the minerals "erdmannite" and meliphanite.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὁμός all →
homotopyhomologicalhomo-homoecioushomomorphoushomonomoushomoplasyhomopolar
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.