marcasita
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin marchasita, from Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā), while the form margajita is directly from Arabic مَرْقَشِيتَا (marqašītā).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marcasita f (plural marcasitas)
Alternative forms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “marcasita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Medieval Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita
- Rhymes:Spanish/ita/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Minerals