Etymology

pyritology

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Today it means: the art of using a blowpipe, and often a charcoal block, to analyse minerals and metal salts Full definition →

English pyrite ← Old French pyrite ← Latin pȳritēs
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  2. Proto-Hellenic*pāwər
  3. Ancient Greekπῦρ (pûr)
  4. Ancient Greekπῠρῑ́της (pŭrī́tēs)
  5. Latinpȳritēs
  6. Old Frenchpyrite
  7. Englishpyrite
  8. English todaypyritology

From pyrite + -ology.

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