anthracite

English

A nugget of anthracite.

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænθɹəˌsaɪt/

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Noun

anthracite (countable and uncountable, plural anthracites)

1. A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.

   Synonym: hard coal

2. A dark grey colour.

   anthracite:  

   • 2013, Sylvia Leydecker, Designing Interior Architecture, page 32:

     In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!

Coordinate terms

• semianthracite
• bituminous coal
• sub-bituminous coal
• brown coal (lignite)

Derived terms

• anthraciferous
• anthracitic
• anthracitism

 

Translations

type of coal

• Albanian: antracit (sq) m
• Bulgarian: антрацит (bg) m (antracit)
• Catalan: antracita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無煙煤／无烟煤 (zh) (wúyānméi)

• Danish: antracit (da) c
• Estonian: antratsiit
• Finnish: antrasiitti (fi)
• French: anthracite (fr) m
• Galician: antracita (gl) f
• Georgian: ანტრაციტი (anṭraciṭi)
• German: Anthrazit (de) m
• Irish: clochghual m
• Italian: antracite (it) f
• Japanese: 無煙炭 (むえんたん, muentan)
• Macedonian: антраци́т m (antracít)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antrasitt m

  Nynorsk: antrasitt m

• Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت (antrasit)
• Polish: antracyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: antracite f, antracito m
• Romanian: antracit (ro) n
• Russian: антраци́т (ru) m (antracít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: антра̀цӣт m

  Roman: antràcīt (sh) m

• Spanish: antracita (es) f
• Swedish: antracit (sv) c
• Tagalog: antrasita
• Turkish: antrasit (tr)

dark gray color

• Polish: antracyt (pl) m, antracytowy (pl) m

Anagrams

• cathartine

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

anthracite m (plural anthracites)

1. anthracite (all senses)

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: آنتراسیت (antrasit)
  • → Turkish: antrasit

Further reading

• “anthracite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.