calcite

calcite

English

Etymology

From Latin calx +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælˌsaɪt/

Noun

calcite (countable and uncountable, plural calcites)

1. (mineralogy) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble

Calcite on apophyllite

Coordinate terms

(rock formations formed from calcite)

• cave pearl
• flowstone
• rimstone
• stalactite
• stalagmite

Derived terms

• ferro-calcite
• manganocalcite
• pentahydrocalcite
• plumbocalcite
• silico-borocalcite

 

Translations

calcium carbonate mineral

Armenian: կալցիտ (hy) (kalcʿit) Basque: kaltzita sg Bulgarian: калцит m (kalcit) Catalan: calcita (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 方解石 (zh) (fāngjiěshí), 冰洲石 (zh) (bīngzhōushí) Czech: vápenec (cs) m Danish: calcit (da) c Dutch: calciet (nl) n Esperanto: kalcito Estonian: kaltsiit, kaltsiit Finnish: kalsiitti (fi), kalkkisälpä French: calcite (fr) f Galician: calcita f Georgian: კალციტი (ḳalciṭi) German: Calcit (de) n, Kalkspat m Greek: ασβεστίτης (el) m (asvestítis) Hungarian: kalcit (hu) Icelandic: kalkspat n, kalsít n Irish: cailcít f Italian: calcite (it) f Japanese: 方解石 (hōkaiseki) Kazakh: кальцит (kalsit) Korean: 방해석(方解石) (ko) (banghaeseok) Latvian: kalcīts m Lithuanian: kalcitas m Norwegian: Bokmål: kalsitt m Nynorsk: kalsitt m Occitan: calcita f Polish: kalcyt (pl) m Portuguese: calcita (pt) f (Brazil), calcite f (Portugal) Romanian: calcit (ro) n Russian: кальци́т (ru) m (kalʹcít) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: калцит m Roman: kalcit (sh) m Spanish: calcita (es) f Swedish: kalcit c Turkish: kalsit (tr)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• lectica

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.sit/

• Audio

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Noun

calcite f (plural calcites)

1. calcite

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈt͡ʃi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: cal‧cì‧te

Noun

calcite f (plural calciti)

1. calcite

Anagrams

• alticce, celtica, leccati