Etymology

sphene

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French sphène ← Ancient Greek σφήν
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσφήν“wedge”
  2. French · borrowed fromsphène
  3. English todaysphene

From French sphène, coined by René Just Haüy in 1801, Traité de minéralogie vol. 3 p. 114, after Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekσφήν all →

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