Etymology

malacolite

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Today it means: diopside Full definition →

Ancient Greek μαλακός
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromμαλακός“soft”
  2. English todaymalacolite

Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + -lite

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekμαλακός all →

malacologymalaco-malacodermmalacosteon

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.