How do you pronounce chrysolite?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt/.

Where does chrysolite come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈkɹɪs.əˌlaɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

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Countable; Uncountable

"Fran. Rueus[…]say as much of the chrysolite, a friend of wisdome, an enemy to folly."
"And before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM."
"A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed."

From Middle English crisolite, from Old French crisolite, from Medieval Latin crisolitus, Latin chrȳsolithus, from Ancient Greek χρῡσόλιθος (khrūsólithos), from χρῡσός (khrūsós, “gold”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, chryso- (“pertaining to gold”) + -lite (“pertaining to rocks, minerals”).

chrysolites (plural)

chrysolitic

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