andesite

See also: andésite

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Quechua antibor.

Spanish Andesbor.

English Andes

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)bor.

Latin -ītēslbor.

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Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)

Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.

Latin -ītislbor.

French -iteder.

English -ite

English andesite

From Andes + -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.dɪˌsaɪt/, /ˈæn.dəˌsaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

andesite (countable and uncountable, plural andesites)

1. (geology) Any of a class of fine-grained intermediate igneous rock, of volcanic origin, containing mostly plagioclase feldspar.

Andesite sample

Derived terms

• andesitic
• meta-andesite

Translations

any of a class of fine-grained intermediate igneous rock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安山岩 (zh) (ānshānyán)

• Esperanto: andezito
• Finnish: andesiitti
• French: andésite (fr) f
• German: Andesit (de) m
• Greek: ανδεσίτης (el) m (andesítis)
• Indonesian: andesit (id)
• Italian: andesite m
• Japanese: 安山岩 (ja) (anzangan)
• Māori: kōkawa
• Polish: andezyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: andesito (pt) m, andesita f, andesite f
• Russian: андези́т (ru) m (andezít)
• Turkish: andezit (tr)

Italian

Noun

andesite m (plural andesiti)

1. (geology) andesite

Anagrams

• desiante, desinate, diesante

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.deˈzi.t͡ʃi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.dɨˈzi.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: an‧de‧si‧te

Noun

andesite f (plural andesites) (European Portuguese spelling)

1. alternative form of andesito

Further reading

• “andesite”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026