schist

Meaning

Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.

Synonyms

slate

shale

spall

spar

torbanite

spawl

cleaving stone

flagstone

shale rock

shiver

Translations

esquisto

schiste

xisto

Schiefer

scisto

ardesia

esquist

schisto

şist

Glimmerschiefer

micaschiste

schist

argile schisteuse

Schieferton

Tonschiefer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɪst/

Etymology

From French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).