olivine

See also: Olivine

English

Olivine

Etymology

From olive +‎ -in, later remodelled after -ine.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒl.ɪˌviːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.əˌvin/

Noun

olivine (countable and uncountable, plural olivines)

2. (mineralogy, geology) Any of a group of olive green magnesium-iron silicate minerals that crystallize in the orthorhombic system.

   Synonyms: chrysolite, Hawaiian peridot

   Hyponyms: peridot, ringwoodite

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 51:

     The olivine crystals in most basalts are imperfect, lacking clear crystal faces.

   • 2025 February 19, Dino Grandoni, “We may be able to trap climate pollution in ordinary rocks. Scientists say they have figured out how to transform rocks into something extraordinary: a high-tech, low-cost substance that can bend geological time and help stall — or even reverse — planetary warming”, in Washington Post‎^[1]:

     To do so, his team mixed together limestone with a crushed silicate mineral that contains magnesium — such as olivine, an olive-tinted mineral that can be found around the world. When heated to furiously high temperatures in a kiln, calcium in the limestone and magnesium in the silicate jiggle and switch sides, like participants in a square dance.

Derived terms

• calcio-olivine
• olivinic (adjective)
• olivinitic

Translations

family of minerals forming orthorhombic crystals

• Bashkir: оливин (olivin)
• Catalan: olivina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 橄欖石 / 橄榄石 (zh) (gǎnlǎnshí)

• Esperanto: olivino
• Estonian: oliviin
• Finnish: oliviini
• French: olivine (fr) f
• Galician: olivina (gl) f
• German: Olivin (de) m
• Greek: ολιβίνης (el) m (olivínis)
• Hebrew: אוליבין (olivín)
• Icelandic: ólivín n
• Italian: olivina (it) f
• Japanese: カンラン石 (ja) (かんらんせき, kanranseki), 橄欖石 (ja) (かんらんせき, kanranseki)
• Kazakh: оливин (olivin)
• Korean: 감람석 (gamnamseok)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: olîvîn (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: оливин (olivin)
• Navajo: tsé dootłʼizh
• Portuguese: olivina f
• Russian: оливи́н (ru) m (olivín)
• Spanish: olivino (es)
• Tagalog: olibino
• Ukrainian: оліві́н (uk) m (olivín)

See also

• bluestone
• olivine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• violine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.li.vin/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

olivine f (plural olivines)

1. olivine

Derived terms

• olivinique

Further reading

• “olivine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Noun

olivine f

1. plural of olivina