gagate

See also: gågate

English

Etymology

From Latin gagates. See jet (“a black mineral”).

Noun

gagate (countable and uncountable, plural gagates)

  1. (obsolete) agate
    • Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain
      Thus, as Pliny reporteth of the gagate-stone, that, set a-fire, it burneth more fiercely if water be cast on […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gagate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Italian

Noun

gagate f (plural gagati)

  1. (mineralogy) jet

Synonyms

Latin

Noun

gagātē

  1. ablative singular of gagātēs
  2. vocative singular of gagātēs
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