calcite

English

Etymology

From Latin calx +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælˌsaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

calcite (countable and uncountable, plural calcites)

1. (mineralogy) A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble.

Calcite on apophyllite

Coordinate terms

(rock formations formed from calcite)

• cave pearl
• flowstone
• rimstone
• stalactite
• stalagmite

Derived terms

• barytocalcite
• calcitic
• chlorocalcite
• ferrocalcite
• ferro-calcite
• hydrocalcite
• manganocalcite
• nitrocalcite
• pentahydrocalcite
• plumbocalcite
• silico-borocalcite

Translations

calcium carbonate mineral

• Armenian: կալցիտ (hy) (kalcʻit)
• Basque: kaltzita sg
• Bulgarian: калцит m (kalcit)
• Catalan: calcita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方解石 (zh) (fāngjiěshí), 冰洲石 (zh) (bīngzhōushí)

• Czech: vápenec (cs) m
• Danish: calcit (da) c
• Dutch: calciet (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalcito
• Estonian: kaltsiit
• Finnish: kalsiitti (fi), kalkkisälpä
• French: calcite (fr) f
• Galician: calcita (gl) f
• Georgian: კალციტი (ḳalciṭi)
• 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)
• Kazakh: кальцит (kalsit)
• Korean: 방해석(方解石) (ko) (banghaeseok)
• Latvian: kalcīts m
• Lithuanian: kalcitas m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalsitt m

  Nynorsk: kalsitt m

• Occitan: calcita f
• Polish: kalcyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: calcita (pt) f (Brazil), calcite f (Portugal)
• Romanian: calcit (ro) n
• Russian: кальци́т (ru) m (kalʹcít)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калцит m

  Roman: kalcit (sh) m

• Spanish: calcita (es) f
• Swedish: kalcit c
• Thai: แคลไซต์ (kɛl-sái)
• Turkish: kalsit (tr)

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Calcite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “calcite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

Anagrams

• lectica

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.sit/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

calcite f (plural calcites)

1. calcite

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalˈt͡ʃi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: cal‧cì‧te

Noun

calcite f (plural calciti)

1. calcite

Anagrams

• alticce, celtica, leccati