Eternit
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin aeternus + -it. Coined by Austrian industrialist Ludwig Hatschek in 1903.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Eternit m (strong, genitive Eternits, plural Eternite)
- Eternit (brand of fibre cement)
- Hypernyms: Asbestzementschiefer, Faserzement
Declension
[edit]Declension of Eternit [masculine, strong]
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: eternit
- → English: Eternit
- → Estonian: eterniit
- → French: éternit
- → Polish: eternit
- → Swedish: eternit
Further reading
[edit]- “Eternit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Eternit” in Duden online
- “Eternit”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Eternit” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon