pyrope

pyrope

English

Etymology

From Latin pyrōpus (“a kind of red bronze”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”); compare French pyrope.

Noun

pyrope (countable and uncountable, plural pyropes)

1. (mineralogy) A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone.

Translations

mineral

Catalan: pirop m Finnish: pyrooppi (fi) French: pyrope (fr) m German: Pyrop m Italian: piropo m Japanese: 苦礬柘榴石 (くばんざくろいし, kubanzakuroishi), パイロープ (pairōpu) Spanish: piropo (es) m Swedish: pyrop c

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Pyrope”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “pyrope”, in Mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Anagrams

• popery, yopper

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French

Noun

pyrope m (plural pyropes)

1. (mineralogy) pyrope

Further reading

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

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Latin

Noun

pyrōpe

1. vocative singular of pyrōpus