gabbro

See also: Gabbro and gabbró

English

Etymology

From Italian gabbro.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡabɹəʊ/

Noun

gabbro (countable and uncountable, plural gabbros)

1. (petrology) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:

     It is known as gabbro and is thought to form the lower layer of the oceanic crust at about four kilometres depth and to comprise a layer up to six kilometres thick, making it one of the most abundant, if least recognisable, materials on earth.

   • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 205:

     Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.

Derived terms

• gabbroid
• gabbroic
• leucogabbro
• melagabbro
• microgabbro

Translations

igneous rock

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輝長岩／辉长岩 (zh) (huīchángyán)

• Finnish: gabro (fi)
• French: gabbro (fr)
• German: Gabbro (de) m
• Greek: γάββρος (el) m (gávvros)
• Hungarian: gabbró (hu)
• Icelandic: gabbró n
• Italian: gabbro (it) m
• Japanese: 斑糲岩 (ja) (はんれいがん, hanreigan)
• Portuguese: gabro m
• Russian: га́ббро (ru) m (gábbro)
• Serbo-Croatian: gabro (sh)
• Slovak: gabro (sk) n
• Spanish: gabro m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

gabbro m (plural gabbros)

1. gabbro

Further reading

• “gabbro”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Probably from Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless”), through an archaic meaning of "uncultivated, barren land".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡab.bro/
• Rhymes: -abbro
• Hyphenation: gàb‧bro

Noun

gabbro m (plural gabbri)

1. (petrology) gabbro

Further reading

• gabbro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana