hematite

See also: hématite

Englisch

Alternative forms

• hæmatite (old-fashioned), haematite (UK)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French hematite, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (lapis) haematites, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek αἱματίτης (haimatítēs) λίθος (líthos, “blood-red stone”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Nomen

hematite (usually uncountable, plural hematites)

1. (mineralogy) An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃.

Synonyms

• kidney ore
• martite

Translations

mineral

• Armenian: հեմատիտ (hy) (hematit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤鐵礦／赤铁矿 (zh) (chìtiěkuàng), 赤铁矿 (zh) (chìtiěkuàng), 代赭石 (dàizhěshí)

• Czech: hematit (cs) m
• Danish: hæmatit (da) c, jernglans c
• Dutch: hematiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: hematito
• Estonian: hematiit (et), raudläik
• Finnish: hematiitti (fi), verikivi, punakivi
• French: hématite (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰემატიტი (hemaṭiṭi)
• German: Hämatit (de) m
• Greek: αιματίτης (el) m (aimatítis)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: hematito (io)
• Italian: ematite (it) f
• Latvian: hematīts m
• Lithuanian: hematitas m
• Malay: hematit
• Navajo: chííh dootłʼizh
• Polish: hematyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: hematita (pt) f
• Russian: гемати́т (ru) (gematít)
• Serbo-Croatian: hematit (sh)
• Spanish: hematita f
• Swedish: hematit c
• Turkish: hematit (tr)

See also

• black diamond

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin haematites.

Nomen

hematite f (plural hematites)

1. hematite (ore)
   • 1572, Pierandrea Mattioli, Des Moulins, Commentaires de M. Pierre André Matthiole medecin senois sur les six livres de Ped. Dioscoride Anazarbeen de la matiere medecinale, reveuz & augmentés en plus de mille lieux... Avec certaines tables medecinales, page 745

     ce n'est pas la vraie hematite de laquelle Dioscoride et Gal. ont parlé

     this isn't the true hematite of which Dioscoride and Gal. spoke of