smithsonite

English

smithsonite

Etymology

Named after James Smithson (1754-1829) in 1832.

Noun

smithsonite (countable and uncountable, plural smithsonites)

1. (mineralogy) A mineral form of zinc carbonate, ZnCO₃, mined as an ore of zinc or as an ornamental stone.

Synonyms

• zinc spar

Translations

mineral

• Arabic: سميثسونيت
• Armenian: սմիթսոնիտ (hy) (smitʻsonit)
• Basque: smithsonita
• Bulgarian: смитсонит m (smitsonit)
• Catalan: smithsonita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菱鋅礦 / 菱锌矿 (zh) (língxīnkuàng)

• Czech: smithsonit m
• Dutch: smithsoniet
• Finnish: sinkkisälpä, smithsoniitti
• French: smithsonite (fr) f
• German: Smithsonit, Zinkspat n
• Greek: σμιθσονίτης f (smithsonítis)
• Hebrew: סמיתסוניט
• Italian: smithsonite f
• Japanese: 菱亜鉛鉱 (りょうあえんこう, ryōaenkō)
• Lithuanian: smitsonitas
• Norwegian: smithsonitt, sinkspat
• Persian: اسمیت زونیت
• Polish: smithsonit (pl) m
• Portuguese: smithsonita f
• Russian: смитсони́т (ru) m (smitsonít), ци́нковый шпа́т m (cínkovyj špát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: смитсо̀нӣт m

  Roman: smitsònīt (sh) m

• Slovak: smithsonit m
• Spanish: smithsonita f
• Swedish: zinkspat c, galmeja, smithsonit
• Ukrainian: смітсоніт m (smitsonit)
• Vietnamese: xmitxonit, smithsonit

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Smithsonite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “smithsonite”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• omnitheists

French

Noun

smithsonite f (countable and uncountable, plural smithsonites)

1. (mineralogy) smithsonite

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zmit.soˈni.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: smith‧so‧nì‧te

Noun

smithsonite f (countable and uncountable, plural smithsoniti)

1. (mineralogy) smithsonite