different between quartz vs aventurine

English

Etymology

From German Quarz, from Middle High German (Central East German) quarz, twarc, from a West Slavic language [compare Polish twardy (“hard”), Czech tvrdý (“hard”), Russian ??????? (tvjórdyj, “hard”)], from Old Church Slavonic ?????? (tvr?d?, “firm”), from Proto-Slavic *tv?rd?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kw??ts/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kw??ts/, /k??ts/
• Homophone: courts (some accents)

Noun

quartz (countable and uncountable, plural quartzes)

1. (mineralogy) The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:quartz

Derived terms

Related terms

• Colorado topaz

Translations

See also

French

Etymology

From German Quarz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwa?ts/

Noun

quartz m (plural quartz)

1. quartz

   Synonym: cristal de roche

Descendants

• ? Catalan: quars

Further reading

• “quartz” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French aventurine, from Italian avventurino, from avventurare (“to venture; to make lucky or prosperous”), from avventura (“chance; adventure, venture”) + -are (suffix forming the infinitive of most regular verbs), apparently so named because it was discovered by accident in Murano, Italy, when brass or copper filings were dropped into melted glass (see, however, the 1843 quotation).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-tj??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?nt?????n/, /-i?n/
• Hyphenation: aven?tur?ine

Noun

aventurine (countable and uncountable, plural aventurines)

1. A kind of brownish glass containing gold-coloured spangles.

   Synonym: goldstone
2. (mineralogy, by extension) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

Alternative forms

• avanturine
• aventurin

Derived terms

• aventurescence
• aventurization

Translations

See also

• sunstone

References

Further reading

• aventurine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “aventurine”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Avanturine”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database

Anagrams

• uninervate

French

Etymology

From aventure +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.ty.?in/

Noun

aventurine f (plural aventurines)

1. aventurine

Further reading

• “aventurine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).