stalagmite

stalagmite

English

Etymology

From New Latin stalagmitēs, from Ancient Greek στάλαγμα (stálagma, “drop”) or σταλαγμός (stalagmós, “dripping”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /stəˈlæɡˌmaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstæl.əɡˌmaɪt/

Noun

stalagmite (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground of a cave.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417:

     In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

   Coordinate term: stalactite

Derived terms

• stalagmitic
• stalagmitical
• stalagmitically

Translations

mineral deposit

Armenian: պտկաքար (hy) (ptkakʿar) Belarusian: сталагмі́т m (stalahmít), сталягмі́т m (staljahmít) Catalan: estalagmita (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 石筍／石笋 (zh) (shísǔn) Czech: stalagmit m Dutch: druipsteenkegel m, druipsteen (nl) m Esperanto: stalagmito Finnish: tippukivipylväs, stalagmiitti (fi) French: stalagmite (fr) m Georgian: სტალაგმიტი (sṭalagmiṭi) German: Stalagmit (de) m Greek: σταλαγμίτης (el) m (stalagmítis) Hungarian: sztalagmit (hu) Irish: aolchoinneal f Japanese: 石筍 (せきじゅん, sekijun) Korean: 석순(石筍) (seoksun) Maori: keotū Persian: استالاگمیت‎ (fa) (estâlâgmit), کلفخشنگ‎ (kalafaxšang) Portuguese: estalagmite f Russian: сталагми́т (ru) m (stalagmít) Slovene: stalagmit m Spanish: estalagmita (es) f Swedish: stalagmit (sv) c Tagalog: estalagmita Thai: หินงอก (th) (hǐn-ngɔ̂ɔk) Turkish: dikit (tr) Ukrainian: сталагмі́т m (stalahmít) Vietnamese: măng đá

See also

• speleothem
• calthemite

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French

des stalagmites

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin stalagmites, from Ancient Greek σταλαγμός (stalagmós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡ.mit/

• Audio

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Noun

stalagmite f (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) stalagmite

   Antonym: stalactite

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡˈmi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: sta‧lag‧mì‧te

Noun

stalagmite f (plural stalagmiti)

1. (geology) stalagmite