ammonite

See also: Ammonite

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.məˌnaɪt/

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• Hyphenation: Am‧mo‧nite

Etymology 1

reconstructed model

fossil shell

From French ammonite, from Latin Ammōnis (cornū) (“horn of Ammon”), as it was called by Pliny the Elder. Equivalent to Ammon +‎ -ite.

Noun

ammonite (plural ammonites)

1. (paleontology) Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal.

   Synonyms: ammonid, ammonoid

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 83:

     Ammonites floated through the world's shallow oceans for more than three hundred million years, and their fossilized shells turn up all around the world.

Derived terms

• ammonitic
• ammonitiferous
• ammonitoid
• neoammonite

 

Translations

cephalopod

• Catalan: ammonit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菊石 (zh) (júshí)

• Finnish: ammoniitti (fi)
• French: ammonite (fr)
• German: Ammonit (de) m
• Hungarian: ammonitesz
• Irish: amainít f
• Italian: ammonite (it) m
• Polish: amonit (pl) m
• Portuguese: amonite f
• Russian: аммони́т (ru) m (ammonít)
• Spanish: amonite m
• Turkish: ammonit

Etymology 2

From ammonium nitrate.

Noun

ammonite (uncountable)

1. An explosive prepared from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate; a form of amatol, popular in Eastern Europe and China.

Related terms

• amatol
• ammonitrate

 

Translations

explosive

• Finnish: ammoniitti (fi)
• Irish: amóinít f
• Polish: amonit (pl) m
• Portuguese: amonita f
• Russian: аммони́т (ru) m (ammonít)

Further reading

• “ammonite”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

ammonite f (plural ammonites)

1. (malacology, paleontology) ammonite

Further reading

• “ammonite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.moˈni.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: am‧mo‧nì‧te

Etymology 1

Noun

ammonite m (plural ammoniti)

1. ammonite (extinct cephalopod)
2. ammonite(most rare mineral)
3. Synonym of ammolite

Etymology 2

Verb

ammonite

1. inflection of ammonire:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 3

Participle

ammonite f pl

1. feminine plural of ammonito

Anagrams

• a momenti, ammetino, menomati, mentiamo, mitomane

Latin

Participle

ammonite

1. vocative masculine singular of ammonitus