esquist

Borrowed from French schiste, from Latin schistos lapis (“the stone that is easy to split”), from Ancient Greek σχιστός (skhistós, “splittable”), from σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈkist]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈkist]

esquist m (plural esquists or esquistos)

1. schist
2. (deprecated) shale

• “esquist”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007