petrological
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to petrology, the study of rock formation and composition
Example Sentences
- "a petrological and chemical analysis"
Etymology
Etymology tree English petrology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English petrological From petrology + -ical.