different between scoriac vs scoria

English

Adjective

scoriac (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to scoria.
   • 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

     She sank beneath the surface, the scoriac waters not splashing, not leaping up, but opening to take her.

Synonyms

• scoriaceous

References

• scoriac in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Caricos, Corsica, crocias

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)