calcite

English

Etymology

From Latin calx +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkæl.saɪt/

Noun

calcite (plural calcites)

(geology) a very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble

Derived terms

Terms derived from calcite

ferro-calcite
manganocalcite

plumbocalcite
silico-borocalcite

Translations

calcium carbonate mineral

Bulgarian: калцит m (kalcit)
Catalan: calcita f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 方解石 (zh) (fāngjiěshí)
Czech: vápenec (cs) m
Dutch: calciet n
Esperanto: kalcito
Estonian: kaltsiit, kaltsiit
Finnish: kalsiitti (fi), kalkkisälpä
French: calcite (fr) f
Galician: calcita f
German: Calcit (de) n, Kalkspat m
Greek: ασβεστίτης (el) m (asvestítis)
Hungarian: kalcit (hu)
Icelandic: kalkspat n, kalsít n
Irish: cailcít f

Italian: calcite (it) f
Japanese: 方解石 (hōkaiseki)
Korean: 방해석 (ko) (banghaeseok)
Latvian: kalcīts m
Lithuanian: kalcitas m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kalsitt m

Nynorsk: kalsitt m
Polish: kalcyt (pl) m
Portuguese: calcita (pt) f
Russian: кальци́т (ru) m (kalʹcít)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: калцит m

Roman: kalcit (sh) m
Spanish: calcita f
Turkish: kalsit (tr)

Further reading

“Calcite” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
calcite mindat.org‎, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016

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