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hematite (n.)
1540s,
haematites
, from Middle French
hematite
(16c.), from Latin
haematites
, from Greek
haimatites lithos
"bloodlike stone," from
haima
(genitive
haimatos
) "blood" (see
-emia
). Earlier in English as
emachite
(late 14c.).
