sinopite
English
editEtymology
editFrom French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).
Noun
editsinopite (usually uncountable, plural sinopites)
- (mineralogy, archaic) sinopia (clay)
References
edit- “sinopite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.