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 in reference to coiling ram horns used to symbolise the Egyptian god Amun. 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

   • 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:

     There's more interest to my mind in a neolithic scraper than in a whole show-case-full of ammonites and belemnites.

   • 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.

   • 2017 October 31, Mark Carnall, “Searching for the Old Ones: Lovecraftian giant cephalopods and the fossil record”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     There are a few well known shelled giant cephalopods from the fossil record. Some of the largest recorded ammonites are in the genus Parapuzosia, fossils of which reach up to 2m in diameter.

Derived terms

• ammonitic
• ammonitiferous
• ammonitoid
• ammonitologist
• ammonitology
• neoammonite

Translations

cephalopod

• Catalan: ammonit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菊石 (zh) (júshí)

• Finnish: ammoniitti (fi)
• French: ammonite (fr)
• German: Ammonit (de) m
• Greek: αμμωνίτης m (ammonítis)
• Hungarian: ammonitesz
• Ido: amonito (io)
• Irish: amainít f
• Italian: ammonite (it) m
• Japanese: アンモナイト (ja) (anmonaito)
• Korean: 암모나이트 (ammonaiteu)
• Latin: ammōnītēs (la) m
• Polish: amonit (pl) m
• Portuguese: amonite f
• Russian: аммони́т (ru) m (ammonít)
• Spanish: amonite m
• Turkish: ammonit
• Vietnamese: cúc đá

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)
• Indonesian: amonit (id)
• 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