calcite

English

Etymology

From Latin calx +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.saɪt/

Noun

calcite (countable and uncountable, plural calcites)

1. (geology) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble

Derived terms

• ferro-calcite
• manganocalcite
• plumbocalcite
• silico-borocalcite

 

Translations

calcium carbonate mineral

• Bulgarian: калцит m (kalcit)
• Catalan: calcita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方解石 (zh) (fāngjiěshí)

• Czech: vápenec (cs) m
• Dutch: calciet (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalcito
• Estonian: kaltsiit, kaltsiit
• Finnish: kalsiitti (fi), kalkkisälpä
• French: calcite (fr) f
• Galician: calcita f
• German: Calcit (de) n, Kalkspat m
• Greek: ασβεστίτης (el) m (asvestítis)
• Hungarian: kalcit (hu)
• Icelandic: kalkspat n, kalsít n
• Irish: cailcít f
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• Italian: calcite (it) f
• Japanese: 方解石 (hōkaiseki)
• Korean: 방해석 (ko) (banghaeseok)
• Latvian: kalcīts m
• Lithuanian: kalcitas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalsitt m

  Nynorsk: kalsitt m

• Polish: kalcyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: calcita (pt) f
• Russian: кальци́т (ru) m (kalʹcít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калцит m

  Roman: kalcit (sh) m

• Spanish: calcita (es) f
• Turkish: kalsit (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Calcite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “calcite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• lectica

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Italian

Noun

calcite f

1. calcite

Anagrams

• alticce
• celtica
• leccati