The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromστίλβω“I glitter”
- English todaystilb
Coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920, from Ancient Greek στίλβω (stílbō, “I glitter”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekστίλβω all →
stilbenestilbite
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.