Translation
mineral
Word origin
From medieval Latin minerale, the neuter of mineralis, built on minera, an ore or a mine. Minera is itself a borrowing into Latin, most often traced to a Celtic word for ore that also gives Welsh mwyn. English mineral and mine came the same way and mean the same things.
- Origin
- Medieval Latin
- Root
- minera
- English cognates
- mineral, mine, mineralogy
Examples
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The mountains of that country are rich in minerals.
.
This stone contains a rare mineral.
.
In the mine they found a new mineral.
No -- in here. ends in what looks exactly like a suffix, and
the temptation is to read it as miner- plus --, the ending English uses
for national, postal, musical. Resist it. The
unofficial affixes article gives
-- its honest status: it was proposed in the sense relating to, it never
landed, and PIV does not carry it. There is no Esperanto root miner- either.
The word arrived whole from Latin and is cut nowhere.
What a actually is. In careful use it is a naturally occurring
solid with a definite chemical make-up, which puts salt, quartz and
oro inside the class and a lump of coal outside it. In
loose use it is anything a minejo produces. The
adjective is minerala, and minerala is mineral water in every menu you
will meet at a congress. The science is mineralogio, built with the
-ologi- formant that the same unofficial-affixes article covers.
The near neighbours. Ŝtono is a stone as an
object, roko is rock as a mass,
metalo is the worked stuff you can beat into a
shape, and kristalo is the shape a mineral takes
when it grows undisturbed. is the one that names the substance
rather than the lump.
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