garnet
pronunciation
How to pronounce garnet in British English:
UK [ˈgɑ:nɪt]
How to pronounce garnet in American English:
US [ˈgɑrnɪt]
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- Noun:
- any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive
Word Origin
- garnet
- garnet: [13] Garnet, as a term for a semiprecious stone, was borrowed from Middle Dutch garnate. This in turn came from Old French grenat ‘dark red’, the colour of the garnet, whose original inspiration was probably the pomegranate (in Old French pome grenate), with its vivid scarlet pulp.=> grain, pomegranate
- garnet (n.)
- mid-15c., metathesized form of gernet "the gem garnet" (early 14c.), from Old French grenate, gernatte, granate "garnet," also an adjective, "of a dark red color," from Medieval Latin granatum "garnet; of dark red color," perhaps abstracted from the Medieval Latin or Old French words for pomegranate, from the stone's resemblance either to the shape of the seeds or the color of the pulp. Or the word might be from Medieval Latin granum "grain," in its sense of "cochineal, red dye." A widespread word: Spanish and Portuguese granate, Italian granato, Dutch granaat, German Granat.
Example
- 1. A glass chequerboard stud with a gold and garnet surround
- 2. A gold sword fitting with an inlaid garnet
- 3. Amethyst is the birthstone for an aquarian born in february and garnet for an aquarian born in january .
- 4. His other trick is to boost the output power of the lasing material , neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet .
- 5. Those garnet crystals produce one laser wavelength ; the chemicals , another .