Sinter

See also: sinter and šinter

German

Etymology

From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German sintar, from Proto-Germanic *sindrą, *sindraz, *sendraz (“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *sendʰro- (“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”); related to Scots sinder (“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel (“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel (“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter (“cinder, slag”), Danish sinder (“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder (“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur (“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic сядра (sjadra, “lime cinder, gypsum”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈzɪntɐ/

Noun

Sinter m (genitive Sinters, plural Sinter)

(geology, metallurgy) sinter

Declension

Declension of Sinter