flint

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
2. (countable, uncountable) A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
3. (countable, uncountable) A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
4. (countable, uncountable) A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything figuratively hard.

Verb

To furnish or decorate an object with flint.

Concetti

selce

pietra focaia

acciarino

pietrina

sinonimi

obsidian

flint stone

firestone

stone

🪨

arrowhead

flintstone

obdurate

flinty

pyrites

stony

granitic

silex

silica

flint for lighter

gunflint

hard

hardcore

hard-core

harsh

heavy

inexorable

intense

iron

keen

loud

opal

pebble

rough

ruffianly

severe

sharp

steely

stern

stiff

strict

tall

tough

unforgiving

unrelenting

stone knife

unmalleable

ball-breaker

ball-buster

spark producer

lighter flint

flintrock

austere

bad

👎

big

bitter

Traduzioni

silex

pedernal

Feuerstein

vuursteen

kiezelsteen

çakmaktaşı

Flint

sílex

sílex

kiezel

pederneira

Silex

silex

pierre à briquet

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/flɪnt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: flynt

Ereditato da inglese antico: flint

Affine olandese: vlint

Affine tedesco: Flins

Affine danese: flint

Affine irlandese: slinn

Affine greco antico: πλίνθος

In summary

From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.