The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμετά“above”
- English todaymetavanuralite
From meta- + vanuralite. Named because it is a dehydrated form of vanuralite; mineralogical naming convention uses Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “above”) for minerals whose only difference is the hydration level.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekμετά all →
metachronismmetacommunicationmetalepsismetaphysis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.