flint
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English flynt, flint, from Old English flint, from Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz (compare Dutch vlint, flint (“flint, cobblestone”), German Flins, Flint (“flint, pebble”), Danish flint (“flint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plind- (“to split, cleave”) (compare Irish slinn (“slate, shingle”), Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos)), from *(s)pley- (“to split”). More at split.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflint (countable and uncountable, plural flints)
- A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.
- He used flint to make a fire.
- A piece of flint, such as a gunflint, used to produce a spark by striking it with a firestriker.
- 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.
- (figurative) Anything figuratively hard.
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See also
editVerb
editflint (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
edit- David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Flint”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
- “flint”, in Mindat.org[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.
French
editNoun
editflint m (plural flints)
Middle English
editNoun
editflint
- Alternative form of flynt
Old English
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *flint, from Proto-Germanic *flintaz
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflint m
- (stone) flint
Polish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editflint f
Swedish
editEtymology 1
editClipping of flintskalle.
Noun
editflint c
Declension
editDeclension of flint | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | flint | flinten | flintar | flintarna |
Genitive | flints | flintens | flintars | flintarnas |
Etymology 2
editClipping of flintskallig.
Adjective
editflint (comparative mer flint, superlative mest flint)
- (colloquial) bald (having a bald head)
- Synonyms: (colloquial) flintis, flintskallig
Declension
editInflection 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 |
Masculine plural3 | flinte | 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. 3) Dated or archaic |
References
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- en:Maize (plant)
- en:Rocks
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- Polish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/int
- Rhymes:Polish/int/1 syllable
- Polish non-lemma forms
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