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nihil album

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables
ni-hil al-bum
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Etymology

From Medieval Latin nihil album (“white nothing”), from late medieval confusion of German nichts (“nothing”) and nix with Latin nix (“snow, snow-white thing”), used for white forms of zinc oxide. Doublet of nill.

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Usage

Synonyms

zinc oxide particularly white forms

Questions

What does nihil album mean?
Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
Where does nihil album come from?
It is traced to German.

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