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Where does “silex” come from?

silex (French) comes from Latin silex — pebble, stone, flint; rock, crag; lava.

silex (French): flint

Definitions

  1. flint

Ancestry of “silex”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsilexpebble, stone, flint; rock, crag; lava
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