basalto

Concepts

basalt

whimstone

Translations

basalte

basalto

Basalt

basalto

basalt

بازلت

basalt

bazalt

βασάλτης

Säulenstein

بَازٰلْت

Hyphenated as

ba‧sàl‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baˈzal.to/

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek βασανίτης (basanítēs), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b-x:n-O39 (bḫn, “a hard stone”).