sinopite

English

Etymology

From French [Term?], from Latin sinopis (terra) (“a red earth or ocher found in Sinope”), from Sinope (“a town in Paphlagoma, on the Black Sea”).

Noun

sinopite (usually uncountable, plural sinopites)

(mineralogy) A brick-red ferruginous clay used as red paint in ancient times.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 sinopite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

pointies

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