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Where does “silice” come from?

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

silice (French): silica

Definitions

  1. silica

Ancestry of “silice”, step by step

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

Words derived from “silice”

  • siliceux
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