Etymograph

English

silica

Silica comes from New Latin silica, and goes back to Latin silex ‘hard stone, flint’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilex‘hard stone, flint’
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900silica
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1993same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilex‘hard stone, flint’
  2. New Latinc. 1500–1900silica
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1993same form

Earliest quotation: 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town: “Its Blair County property was sited at the foot…”

Every English word from Latin silex

Today it means

noun Silicon dioxide.

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

Etymograph / Latin silex / silica

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