caolín
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French kaolin, from Mandarin 高陵 (gāolíng, “high hill”), in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, the location this clay was first found.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaoˈlin/ [ka.oˈlĩn]
- Rhymes: -in
- Syllabification: ca‧o‧lín
See also
- caolín on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Further reading
- “caolín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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