The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromῥοδόχρως“having rosy colour”
- English todayrhodochrosite
From Ancient Greek ῥοδόχρως (rhodókhrōs, “having rosy colour”), from ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “colour”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.