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) German: Feuerstein, Silex Icelandic: tinna (is) f. Italian: selce (it) Japanese: 燧石 (ja) Korean: 플린트 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) m. Slovak: silicit, rohovec, pazúrik, flint, buližník Slovene: kremen (sl) Spanish: pedernal (es) m., sílex Swedish: flinta (sv) Volapük: flintoin (vo) Welsh: callestr

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

Czech: pazourek (cs) m. Danish: flint (da) c. Dutch: vuursteen (nl) m. French: pierre à fusil (fr) f. Macedonian: кремен (mk) (krémen) m., белутрак (mk) (bélutrak) m.

Portuguese: pederneira (pt) f. Russian: огниво (ru) m. Spanish: pedernal (es) m. Volapük: (gun) flintoin güna (vo)

small cylinder

Danish: flint (da) c.

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.