cipolin

• chipolin, cipollino

From Italian cipollino (“a little onion”), from cipolla (“onion”) (compare English cibol). So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.

cipolin (countable and uncountable, plural cipolins)

1. (mineralogy) A white-green wavy-banded form of marble, used in buildings in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It consists of coloured veins of epidote and chlorite.

“cipolin”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

• “cipolin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• picolin

• chipolin

Borrowed from Italian cipollino (“a little onion”), from cipolla (“onion”). (compare French ciboule) So called because its veins consist, like onions, of different strata, one lying upon another.

cipolin m (plural cipolins)

1. cipolin (“a type of marble”)

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

Borrowed from Italian cipollino.

cipolin n (uncountable)

1. cipolin (marble)