Etymograph

English

fluoroid

From fluor + -oid.

Formed from fluor + -oid

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluor

The story

The shape is a common form of fluorite.

Today it means

noun A tetrakis hexahedron.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fluoroid