essonite

English

Etymology

Named from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek inferior, because not so hard as some minerals it resembles (e.g. hyacinth).

Noun

essonite (plural essonites)

1. (mineralogy) Cinnamon stone, a variety of garnet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “essonite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• sees into

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Italian

Alternative forms

• hessonite

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ἥσσων (hḗssōn, “inferior”) +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es.soˈni.te/
• Hyphenation: es‧so‧nì‧te

Noun

essonite f (countable and uncountable, plural essoniti)

1. (mineralogy) essonite, cinnamon stone (reddish-brown variety of garnet)

   Synonym: giacinto di Ceylon

   Hypernym: grossularia

   Coordinate terms: granato bianco, succinite

References

• essonite in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana