stalagmite

English

Etymology

From New Latin stalagmitēs, from Ancient Greek στάλαγμα (stálagma, “drop”) or σταλαγμός (stalagmós, “dripping”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /stəˈlæɡˌmaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstæl.əɡˌmaɪt/

Noun

stalagmite (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground of a cave.

   Coordinate term: stalactite

   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC:

     In one place, near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water-drip from a stalactite overhead.

   • 1981, Kalu Uka, A Consummation of Fire: A Novel, page 9:

     Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.

Derived terms

• stalagmitic
• stalagmitical
• stalagmitically

Translations

mineral deposit

• Armenian: պտկաքար (hy) (ptkakʻar)
• Belarusian: сталагмі́т m (stalahmít), сталягмі́т m (staljahmít)
• Catalan: estalagmita (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 石筍／石笋 (zh) (shísǔn)

• Czech: stalagmit m
• Dutch: druipsteenkegel m, druipsteen (nl) m
• Esperanto: stalagmito
• Finnish: tippukivipylväs, stalagmiitti (fi)
• French: stalagmite (fr) m
• Georgian: სტალაგმიტი (sṭalagmiṭi)
• German: Stalagmit (de) m
• Greek: σταλαγμίτης (el) m (stalagmítis)
• Hungarian: sztalagmit (hu)
• Icelandic: dropasteinskerti n
• Irish: aolchoinneal f
• Japanese: 石筍 (ja) (せきじゅん, sekijun)
• Kazakh: тасқада (tasqada)
• Korean: 석순(石筍) (seoksun)
• Maori: keotū
• Persian: استالاگمیت (fa) (estâlâgmit), کلفخشنگ (kalafaxšang)
• Polish: stalagmit (pl) m
• Portuguese: estalagmite f
• Russian: сталагми́т (ru) m (stalagmít)
• Slovene: stalagmit m
• Spanish: estalagmita (es) f
• Swedish: stalagmit (sv) c
• Tagalog: estalagmita
• Thai: หินงอก (th) (hǐn-ngɔ̂ɔk)
• Turkish: dikit (tr)
• Ukrainian: сталагмі́т m (stalahmít)
• Vietnamese: măng đá

See also

• speleothem
• calthemite

French

des stalagmites

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin stalagmites, from Ancient Greek σταλαγμός (stalagmós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡ.mit/

• Audio:

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Noun

stalagmite f (plural stalagmites)

1. (geology) stalagmite

   Antonym: stalactite

Further reading

• “stalagmite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.laɡˈmi.te/
• Rhymes: -ite
• Hyphenation: sta‧lag‧mì‧te

Noun

stalagmite f (plural stalagmiti)

1. (geology) stalagmite