different between basalt vs scoria

English

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”),

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?bæs?lt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæs?lt/, /?bæs?lt/, /?bæs??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??s?lt/, /?be?s??lt/
• Hyphenation: bas?alt

Noun

basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)

1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. A type of unglazed pottery.

Hypernyms

• molten rock

Hyponyms

• flood basalt

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Labats, Tablas, tablas, talabs

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

Further reading

• “basalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “basalt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “basalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “basalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French basalte, from Middle French basalte, from Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??z?lt/
• Hyphenation: ba?salt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basalten

Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa?sal?t]

Noun

basalt n (genitive singular basalts, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A hard rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, it makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

Declension

Synonyms

• blágrýti n

Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (genitive singular basailt)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "basalt" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “basalt” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basalter, definite plural basaltene)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basaltar, definite plural basaltane)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sc?ria, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?ría), from ???? (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk?????/
• Rhymes: -??ri?

Noun

scoria (countable and uncountable, plural scorias or scoriae)

1. The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore. [from 14th c.]
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     The like stuff is in Anacharsis: hot metal; full of scoriae, which should and could have been smelted out, but which will not.

2. (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater. [from 18th c.]
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:

     An excellent guidebook by Drs Kilburn and McGuire of University College London reveals that these unpromising pieces of debris are scoria and lithic fragments of the March 1944 eruption.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Corias, cariso

Italian

Etymology

From Latin sc?ria, from Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?ría).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?.rja/

Noun

scoria f (plural scorie)

1. slag
2. waste
3. scoria, tailings

Derived terms

• scorie radioattive

References

Anagrams

• corsia, rosica, scorai

Latin

Alternative forms

• scauria (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (sk?ría, “slag”), from ???? (skôr, “dung”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sko?.ri.a/, [?s?ko??iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sko.ri.a/, [?sk???i?]

Noun

sc?ria f (genitive sc?riae); first declension

1. slag, dross, scoria
   • 2^nd century CE, Lex Metalli Vipascensis, in CLI II, 5181, II, 53–55

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• scoria in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scoria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)