flint
See also: Flint
English
Etymology
From Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Middle Dutch vlint, Old High German flins, Danish flint), from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)plei- (“to split”). More at split.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɪnt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪnt
Noun
flint (countable and uncountable, plural flints)
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark.
- A small cylinder of some other material of the same function in a cigarette lighter, etc.
- A type of maize/corn with a hard outer hull.
- (figuratively) Anything figuratively hard.
Derived terms
Translations
hard fine-grained quartz which generates sparks when struck
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piece of flint, such as gunflint used to produce a spark
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small cylinder
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See also
Verb
flint (third-person singular simple present flints, present participle flinting, simple past and past participle flinted)
- (transitive) To furnish or decorate an object with flint.
Further reading
- “Flint” in David Barthelmy, Webmineral Mineralogy Database, 1997–.
- “flint”, in Mindat.org, Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, accessed 29 August 2016.
Middle English
Swedish
Etymology 1
Clipping of flintskalle.
Declension
Declension of flint | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | flint | flinten | flintar | flintarna |
Genitive | flints | flintens | flintars | flintarnas |
Etymology 2
Clipping of flintskallig.
Adjective
Declension
Inflection of flint | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | flint | mer flint | mest flint |
Neuter singular | flint | mer flint | mest flint |
Plural | flinta | mer flinta | mest flinta |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | flinte | mer flinte | mest flinte |
All | flinta | mer flinta | mest flinta |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. |
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