hematite

See also: hématite

English

Alternative forms

• hæmatite (dated)
• haematite (UK)

Hematite.

Etymology

From Middle French hematite, from Latin (lapis) haematites, from Ancient Greek αἱματίτης (haimatítēs) λίθος (líthos, “blood-red stone”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, hemat- +‎ -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiː.məˌtaɪt/, /ˈhɛm.əˌtaɪt/

Noun

hematite (usually uncountable, plural hematites)

1. (mineralogy) An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃: iron(III) oxide.

   Hypernym: iron ore

   Hyponyms: kidney ore, martite

   Coordinate term: magnetite

Derived terms

• hematitic (adj)

Translations

mineral

• Arabic: حَجَر الدَّم m (ḥajar ad-dam), شَاذَنْج m (šāḏanj)
• Armenian: հեմատիտ (hy) (hematit)
• Azerbaijani: hematit
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 赤鐵礦 / 赤铁矿 (zh) (chìtiěkuàng), 代赭石 (dàizhěshí)

• Corsican: ematite, ematita
• Czech: hematit (cs) m
• Danish: hæmatit (da) c, jernglans c
• Dutch: hematiet (nl) n
• Esperanto: hematito
• Estonian: hematiit (et), raudläik
• Finnish: hematiitti (fi), verikivi, punakivi
• French: hématite (fr) f
• Georgian: ჰემატიტი (hemaṭiṭi)
• German: Hämatit (de) m
• Greek: αιματίτης (el) m (aimatítis)
• Hebrew: המטיט (he)
• Ido: hematito (io)
• Italian: ematite (it) f
• Japanese: 赤鉄鉱 (せきてっこう, sekitekkō)
• Korean: 적철석 (jeokcheolseok), 적철광 (ko) (jeokcheolgwang)
• Latin: ferrum rude n
• Latvian: hematīts m
• Lithuanian: hematitas m
• Malay: hematit
• Navajo: chííh dootłʼizh
• Occitan: ematita f
• Polish: hematyt (pl) m
• Portuguese: hematita (pt) f
• Romanian: hematit (ro) n
• Russian: гемати́т (ru) (gematít)
• Serbo-Croatian: hematit (sh)
• Spanish: hematita f
• Swedish: hematit c
• Turkish: hematit (tr)
• Uzbek: gematit (uz)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• black diamond

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin haematites.

Noun

hematite f (plural hematites)

1. hematite (ore)
   • 1572, Pierandrea Mattioli, Des Moulins, Commentaires de M. Pierre André Matthiole medecin senois sur les six livres de Ped. Dioscoride Anazarbeen de la matiere medecinale, reveuz & augmentés en plus de mille lieux... Avec certaines tables medecinales, page 745:

     ce n'est pas la vraie hematite de laquelle Dioscoride et Gal. ont parlé

     this isn't the true hematite of which Dioscoride and Gal. spoke of

Descendants

• French: hématite