gabbro

gabbro

See also: Gabbro and gabbró

English

Etymology

From Italian gabbro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡabɹəʊ/

Noun

gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)

1. (petrology) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 59:

     It is known as gabbro and is thought to form the lower layer of the oceanic crust at about four kilometres depth and to comprise a layer up to six kilometres thick, making it one of the most abundant, if least recognisable, materials on earth.

Derived terms

• gabbroid
• gabbroic
• leucogabbro
• melagabbro
• microgabbro

Translations

igneous rock

Chinese: Mandarin: 輝長岩／辉长岩 (zh) (huīchángyán) Finnish: gabro (fi) French: gabbro (fr) German: Gabbro (de) m Greek: γάββρος (el) m (gávvros) Hungarian: gabbró Icelandic: gabbró n Italian: gabbro (it) m Japanese: 斑糲岩 (ja) (はんれいがん, hanreigan) Portuguese: gabro m Russian: га́ббро (ru) m (gábbro) Serbo-Croatian: gabro (sh) Slovak: gabro (sk) n Spanish: gabro m

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French

Noun

gabbro m (plural gabbros)

1. gabbro

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

Probably from Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless”), through an archaic meaning of "uncultivated, barren land".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡab.bro/
• Rhymes: -abbro
• Hyphenation: gàb‧bro

Noun

gabbro m (plural gabbri)

1. (petrology) gabbro

Further reading

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