English

mangerite

From Manger + -ite, after a place in Norway.

Formed from Manger + -ite

Latin mandō ‘chew, eat, devour’

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Latin manducō ‘to chew, gnaw on, masticate’

Old French mangier ‘to eat’

Old French mangeoire

Middle English manger

Today it means

noun A plutonic intrusive igneous rock, essentially a hypersthene-bearing monzonite.

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

Etymograph / mangerite