basaltic

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Etymology

Etymology tree

English basalt

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English basaltic

From basalt + -ic.

Adjective

basaltic

1. Of or pertaining to basalt.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, [1]

     Even the beneficient^[sic] rainfall had failed to attract animal life to the basaltic waste, and the genius of silence seemed to brood over all.

   • 2000, Tony Waltham, “Geyser watching”, in Geology Today, volume 16, number 3, page 97:

     The island gains its geothermal heat from basaltic magma in the fissure systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Derived terms

• basaltic magma
• nonbasaltic

Translations

relating to basalt

• Catalan: basàltic
• Danish: basaltisk
• Finnish: basalttinen
• French: basaltique (fr)
• Galician: basáltico
• German: basaltisch (de)
• Italian: basaltico
• Korean: 현무암의 (hyeonmuamui), 현무암질 (hyeonmuamjil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: basaltisk

  Nynorsk: basaltisk

• Polish: bazaltowy (pl)
• Portuguese: basáltico
• Romanian: bazaltic (ro)
• Spanish: basáltico

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