Sphene
/sfiːn/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 titanite countable, uncountable
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From French sphène, coined by René Just Haüy in 1801, Traité de minéralogie vol. 3 p. 114, after Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”).