zinnwaldite, n.

zinnwaldite
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Revised 2021

# zinnwalditenoun

## Earlier version

- zinnwaldite in OED Second Edition (1989)

## Factsheet

### What does the noun zinnwaldite mean?

There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun zinnwaldite. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

### How common is the noun zinnwaldite?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1880 | 0.0061
1890 | 0.0059
1900 | 0.0058
1910 | 0.0071
1920 | 0.0081
1930 | 0.0089
1940 | 0.0087
1950 | 0.0079
1960 | 0.0078
1970 | 0.0074
1980 | 0.0056
1990 | 0.0047
2000 | 0.0037
2010 | 0.0034

### How is the noun zinnwaldite pronounced?

#### British English

/ˈzɪnwɒldʌɪt/
ZIN-wol-dight
/ˈtsɪnvaltʌɪt/
TSIN-val-tight

#### U.S. English

/ˈzɪnˌwɔldˌaɪt/
ZIN-wawld-ight
/ˈzɪnˌwɑldˌaɪt/
ZIN-wahld-ight

### Where does the noun zinnwaldite come from?

Earliest known use

1850s

The earliest known use of the noun zinnwaldite is in the 1850s.

OED's earliest evidence for zinnwaldite is from 1850, in the writing of James Dana, geologist, zoologist, and teacher.

zinnwaldite is a borrowing from German.

Etymons: German Zinnwaldit.

### Nearby entries

1. zinginess, n. 1938–
2. zinging, n. 1921–
3. zinging, adj. 1915–
4. zingingly, adv. 1952–
5. zingo, int. 1906–
6. zingy, adj. 1938–
7. Zinjanthropus, n. 1959–
8. zinke, n. 1773–
9. zinnia, n. 1761–
10. zinnober green, n. 1879–
11. zinnwaldite, n.1850–
12. zino, n. 1982–
13. Zinovievite, adj. & n. 1936–
14. Zinoviev letter, n. 1924–
15. Zion, n. Old English–
16. Zion Curtain, n. 1951–
17. Zioner, n. 1681–1760
18. Zionism, n. 1896–
19. Zionist, n. & adj. a1649–
20. Zionistic, adj. 1887–
21. Zionite, n. 1596–

## Etymology

### Summary

A borrowing from German.
Etymon: German Zinnwaldit.
< German Zinnwaldit (W. Haidinger Handb. der bestimmenden Mineral. (1845) 521) < the name of Zinnwald, a settlement on the border of Saxony and Bohemia, where the mineral was found + ‑it ‑ite suffix1.

## Meaning & use

Mineralogy.

1. 1850–
   A kind of mica containing lithium and iron, mined as a source of lithium.
   Not now regarded as a distinct mineral species, but as forming a series intermediate in composition between siderophyllite and polylithionite.
   1. 1850

      > The Zinnwald mica has been called Zinnwaldite.

      J. D. Dana, System of Mineralogy (ed. 3) 361
   2. 1915

      > The potassium-lithium mica, zinnwaldite or cryophyllite, carries much more iron than magnesium.

      Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. vol. 1 576
   3. 2017

      > Further pilot testing is planned on a range of materials including lepidolite, zinnwaldite and spodumene.

      ENP Newswire (Nexis) 1 March
   minerals
   1. zinnwaldite 1850–
      A kind of mica containing lithium and iron, mined as a source of lithium.
   2. cryophyllite 1866–
      A lithium- and iron-containing mica, now regarded as a variety of lepidolite.
   3. polylithionite 1884–
      A mineral of the mica group that contains lithium (in a higher proportion than lepidolite, of which it was originally considered a variety) and…
   4. protolithionite 1892–
      A form of mica resembling zinnwaldite but containing more lithium and less iron.
   View in Historical Thesaurus

## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˈzɪnwɒldʌɪt/
ZIN-wol-dight
/ˈtsɪnvaltʌɪt/
TSIN-val-tight

### U.S. English

/ˈzɪnˌwɔldˌaɪt/
ZIN-wawld-ight
/ˈzɪnˌwɑldˌaɪt/
ZIN-wahld-ight
/ˈtsɪnˌvɔltˌaɪt/
TSIN-vawlt-ight
/ˈtsɪnˌvɑltˌaɪt/
TSIN-vahlt-ight

####

##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

####

##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye*
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- ifleece, happy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- ætrap, bath
- ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
- ɑrstart
- ɔcloth, thought
- ɔrnorth, force
- ʊfoot
- ugoose
- əstrut, comma
- ərnurse, letter
- ɪ(ə)rnear
- ɛ(ə)rsquare
- ʊ(ə)rcure
- eɪface
- aɪpride
- aʊmouth
- oʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ɑ̃gratin
- æ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

####

Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

##### Consonants

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

- gguy
- jjay
- yyore
- chchore
- khloch
- shshore
- ththaw
- dhthee
- zhbeige

##### Vowels

- atrap
- ahpalm
- airsquare
- arstart
- arrcarry (British only)
- awthought
- ayface
- a(ng)gratin
- edress
- eefleece
- eerdeer
- errmerry
- ikit
- ighpride
- irrmirror
- olot (British only)
- ohgoat
- oogoose
- oorcure
- orforce
- orrsorry (British only)
- owmouth
- oyvoice
- o(ng)salon
- ustrut
- uhletter
- urnurse
- urrhurry
- uufoot

## Frequency

zinnwaldite typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

zinnwaldite is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of zinnwaldite, n., 1880–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
--- | ---
1880 | 0.0061
1890 | 0.0059
1900 | 0.0058
1910 | 0.0071
1920 | 0.0081
1930 | 0.0089
1940 | 0.0087
1950 | 0.0079
1960 | 0.0078
1970 | 0.0074
1980 | 0.0056
1990 | 0.0047
2000 | 0.0037
2010 | 0.0034

zinnwaldite, n. was revised in March 2021.

zinnwaldite, n. was last modified in July 2023.