flint

See also Flint

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /flɪnt/

Etymology

Old English flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Middle Dutch vlint, Old High German flins, Danish flint), from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plinthos)), from *(s)plei- (“to split”). More at split.

Noun

flint (plural flints)

1. A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
2. A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
3. A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.

Derived terms

• gunflint

Translations

hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck

• Armenian: կայծքար (hy) (kayçk’ar)
• Cappadocian Greek: κασκάρα (kaskara)
• Catalan: sílex
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 燧石 (cmn) (suìshí)

• Czech: pazourek (cs) m
• Danish: ildsten, flint (da) c
• Dutch: vuursteen n, keisteen m
• Finnish: piikivi (fi)
• French: silex (fr) m
• German: Feuerstein (de) m, Silex (de)
• Icelandic: tinna (is) f
• Italian: selce (it)
• Japanese: 燧石 (ja) (ひうちいし, hiuchiishi, すいせき, suiseki)
• Jèrriais: pièrre à feu f
• Korean: 플린트 (ko) (peullinteu), 수석 (ko) (suseok) (燧石 (ko))
• Latgalian: kroms

• Latin: silex (la)
• Latvian: krams (lv)
• Lithuanian: titnagas
• Macedonian: кремен (mk) (krémen) m, белутрак (mk) (bélutrak) m
• Navajo: béésh
• Norwegian: flint (no)
• Polish: krzemień (pl) m
• Portuguese: sílex
• Romanian: silex (ro)
• Russian: кремень (ru) (kreménʹ) m
• Slovak: silicit, rohovec, pazúrik, flint, buližník
• Slovene: kremen (sl)
• Spanish: pedernal (es) m, sílex
• Swedish: flinta (sv)
• Vietnamese: đá lửa (vi)
• Volapük: flintoin (vo)
• Welsh: callestr

piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark

• Catalan: pedrenyal (ca) m, pedrenyera (ca) f, pedra foguera (ca) f
• Czech: pazourek (cs) m
• Danish: flint (da) c
• Dutch: vuursteen (nl) m
• French: pierre à fusil (fr) f
• Jèrriais: pièrre à feu f

• Macedonian: кремен (mk) (krémen) m, белутрак (mk) (bélutrak) m
• Portuguese: pederneira (pt) f
• Russian: огниво (ru) (ognívo) n
• Spanish: pedernal (es) m
• Volapük: (gun) flintoin güna (vo)

small cylinder

• Danish: flint (da) c
• Finnish: kivi (fi)

• French: pierre à briquet (fr) f

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• Arabic: ظرّ (ʐirr) m
• Italian: selce

• Korean: 부싯돌 (busit-dol)

See also

• chert
• ferrocerium

Verb

flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)

1. (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.