Apatit

apatit German Etymology de Abraham Gottlob Werner the German geologist 1 (1749–1817) from de grc ᾰ̓πᾰ́τη deceit, fraud as it is often mistaken for other minerals (possibly from de qsb-grc) de it suffix forming nouns denoting minerals or rocks.A[braham] G[ottlob] Werner Abraham Gottlob Werner Geschichte, Karakteristik, und kurze chemische Untersuchung des Apatits History, Characteristics, and Brief Chemical Investigation of Apatite Bergmännisches Journal Miners’ Journal Freyberg Alexander Bilhelm Köhler; Grazischen Buchhandlung 1788 I 84–85 https://books.google.com/books?id=XyU7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA84 503826270 Ich wies hierauf diesem Foßile, als einer eigenen Gattung, sogleich eine Stelle in dem Kalkgeschlechte an; und ertheilte ihm, – weil es bisher alle Mineralogen in seiner Bestimmung irre geführt hatte, – den Namen Apatit, den ich von dem griechischen Worte grc απατάω (decipio) bildete, und welcher so viel as Trügling sagt. I then immediately assigned to this fossil [i.e., material obtained from underground], as a separate type, a place in the lime lineage; and conferred on it, — because it had previously led astray all mineralogists in its classification — the name apatite, which I formed from the Greek word grc απατάω (I deceive), and which says as much as [the word] deceiver. Pronunciation de /apaˈtiːt/ de De-Apatit.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Apat it Noun m de mineral apatite from 1786 de Carl Abraham Gerhard Erster Anhang First Addendum Grundriß des Mineralsystems zu Vorlesungen Outline of the Mineral Systems for Lectures Berlin Christian Friedrich Himburg 1786 281 https://books.google.com/books?id=hONbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA281 11933536 Von einigen noch nicht genau bestimmten und ganz neu entdeckten Mineralien. Ich rechne hierzu folgende drei Körper: 1. Den Apatit des Herrn Werners. On some still not precisely determined and quite recently discovered minerals. I count among these the following three substances: 1. the apatite of Mr. Werner. Declension m Descendants en apatite 1 References Further reading