meteorite

See also: Meteorite and météorite

English

A cast of a meteorite

Etymology

meteor +‎ -ite

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.tɪ.ə.ɹaɪt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/, /-ɾi-/
Audio (GA) (file)
Hyphenation: me‧te‧or‧ite

Noun

meteorite (plural meteorites)

A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:meteorite

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

remains of a meteor

Albanian: meteorit (sq) m
Arabic: حَجَر نَيْزَكِيّ m (ḥajar nayzakiyy)
Armenian: երկնաքար (hy) (erknakʿar)
Asturian: meteoritu m
Azerbaijani: meteorit
Basque: meteorito
Belarusian: метэары́т (be) m (mjetearýt)
Bengali: উল্কাপিণ্ড (bn) (ulkapinḍo)
Bulgarian: метеори́т m (meteorít)
Burmese: ဥက္ကာခဲ (my) (ukkahkai:)
Catalan: meteorit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 隕石／陨石 (zh) (yǔnshí)
Cornish: men kowas m
Czech: meteorit (cs) m
Danish: meteorit (da) c
Dutch: meteoriet (nl) m
Esperanto: meteorito, aerolito, meteorŝtono, aerŝtono
Estonian: meteoriit (et)
Finnish: meteoriitti (fi)
French: météorite (fr) f
Galician: meteorito (gl) m
Georgian: მეტეორიტი (meṭeoriṭi)
German: Meteorit (de) m
Greek: μετεωρίτης (el) m (meteorítis)
Hebrew: מֶטֶאוֹרִיט (he) m (meteorit), כּוֹכָב נוֹפֵל
Hindi: उल्कापिंड m (ulkāpiṇḍ)
Hungarian: meteorit (hu)
Icelandic: loftsteinn (is) m
Irish: dreigít f
Italian: meteorite (it) f
Japanese: 隕石 (ja) (いんせき, inseki)
Kazakh: метеорит (meteorit)
Khmer: ឧក្កាបាត (km) (’ukkaabaat), អាចម៍ផ្កាយ (ʼac phkaay)
Korean: 운석(隕石) (ko) (unseok)
Kyrgyz: метеорит (meteorit)
Lao: ອຸກກາບາດ (lo) (ʼuk kā bāt)
Latvian: meteorīts m
Lithuanian: meteoritas m
Macedonian: метеорит m (meteorit)
Malay: meteorit
Maltese: meteorit m
Maori: matakōkiri, whatu kōkiri
Mongolian: газарт унасан солир (gazart unasan solir), солирын чулуулаг (soliryn čuluulag)
Nahuatl: cītlalmītl (nah)
Norwegian: meteoritt m
Occitan: meteorit (oc) m
Persian: شهاب‌سنگ (šahâb-sang)
Polish: meteoryt (pl) m
Portuguese: meteorito (pt) m
Punjabi: ਉਲਕਾ ਪਿੰਡ (ulakā piṇḍ)
Quechua: pachakawri rumi
Romanian: meteorit (ro) m
Russian: метеори́т (ru) m (meteorít)
Scottish Gaelic: dreagag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: метеорит m

Roman: meteorit (sh) m
Slovak: meteorit m
Slovene: meteorit (sl) m
Spanish: meteorito (es) m
Swedish: meteorit (sv) c
Tagalog: bulalato, meteorita
Tajik: шиҳобпора (šihobpora), метеорит (meteorit), шиҳобсанг (šihobsang)
Tamil: விண்வீழ்கல் (viṇvīḻkal)
Tatar: метеорит (meteorit)
Thai: อุกกาบาต (th) (ùk-gaa-bàat)
Turkish: göktaşı (tr), meteorit (tr)
Turkmen: meteorit
Ukrainian: метеори́т m (meteorýt)
Urdu: شہابی پتھر m (śihābī patthar)
Uyghur: مېتېئورىت (mëtë'orit)
Uzbek: meteorit (uz)
Vietnamese: thiên thạch (vi), vẫn thạch (vi)
Zazaki: meteorit

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me.te.oˈri.te/
Rhymes: -ite
Hyphenation: me‧te‧o‧rì‧te

Noun

meteorite m or f (plural meteoriti)

meteorite

Derived terms

micrometeorite

Anagrams

ietteremo, ometterei

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meteorite

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

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