fluorite

See also: Fluorite

English

A deep green isolated fluorite crystal.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?

Latin fluō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin fluorbor.

English fluor

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.

Latin -ītēslbor.

French -iteder.

English -ite

English fluorite

From fluor + -ite.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflʊɚˌaɪt/, /ˈflɔɹˌaɪt/

Noun

fluorite (countable and uncountable, plural fluorites)

2. (mineralogy) A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.

   Synonyms: fluor, fluorspar

   Hypernyms: mineral < material

   Hyponyms: blue John, Derbyshire spar

   Near-synonym: calcium fluoride

   Fluorite is an important natural resource of Thailand.

Derived terms

• antifluorite
• fluoritization
• hypofluorite
• yttrofluorite

Translations

mineral

• Catalan: fluorita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 螢石 / 萤石 (zh) (yíngshí), 氟石 (zh) (fúshí)

• Danish: fluorit c, flusspat c
• Estonian: fluoriit
• Finnish: fluoriitti
• French: fluorite (fr) f, fluorine (fr) f
• Galician: fluorita (gl) f
• German: Fluorit m
• Hungarian: fluorit (hu)
• Italian: fluorite f
• Japanese: 蛍石 (ja) (ほたるいし, hotaruishi)
• Kazakh: флюорит (flyuworıyt)
• Kyrgyz: флюорит (flyuorit)
• Latin: murra (la) f
• Polish: fluoryt (pl) m
• Portuguese: fluorita f
• Romanian: fluorit m
• Russian: флюори́т (ru) m (fljuorít)
• Spanish: fluorita (es) f, fluorina f
• Swedish: fluorit (sv) c, flusspat c
• Turkish: florit (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Fluorite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “fluorite”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.

Italian

Etymology

From fluoro +‎ -ite.

Noun

fluorite f (plural fluoriti)

1. fluorite

Further reading

• “fluorite”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• fluiterò