Where does “silice” come from?

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

silice (Latin): ablative singular of silex

Definitions

  1. ablative singular of silex

Ancestry of “silice”, step by step

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