Etymology

stibium

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Today it means: antimony Full definition →

Latin stibium ← Ancient Greek στίβι (stíbi) ← Egyptian sdm
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The story

  1. Egyptiansdm
  2. Ancient Greekστίμμῐ (stímmĭ)
  3. Ancient Greekστίβι (stíbi)
  4. Latinstibium
  5. English todaystibium

From Latin stibium (“antimony”), which was imported from Ancient Greek στίβι (stíbi), a variant of στίμμι (stímmi), itself originating from Egyptian s-d-m-N33C:Z2ss (sdm).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekστίβι all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.