agalmatolite

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

agalmatolite (countable and uncountable, plural agalmatolites)

1. (mineralogy) A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

Translations

soft, compact stone

• Catalan: pagodita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: agalmatoliitti
• Japanese: 蝋石 (ろうせき, rōseki)
• Korean: 곱돌 (gopdol)
• Polish: agalmatolit (pl) m, pagodyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: agalmatolita f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “agalmatolite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɡaw.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi/ [a.ɡaʊ̯.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɡaw.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi/ [a.ɡaʊ̯.ma.toˈli.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɡaw.ma.toˈli.te/ [a.ɡaʊ̯.ma.toˈli.te]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɡal.mɐ.tuˈli.tɨ/ [ɐ.ɣaɫ.mɐ.tuˈli.tɨ]

Noun

agalmatolite f (uncountable)

1. European Portuguese form standard spelling of agalmatolita.