calamine
French, noun
calamine is spelled C-A-L-A-M-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 75,533rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Calamine is a French feminine noun meaning “calamine, form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct of sublimation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, calaminé is a different word: “past participle of calaminer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Appellation désuète qui peut désigner l’hémimorphite ou la smithsonite, mais aussi d’autres minéraux de…”.
What does calamine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecalamine, form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct of sublimation
- 2
femininecarbon residue formed as a byproduct in two-stroke engines
verb
- 1
past participle of calaminer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Appellation désuète qui peut désigner l’hémimorphite ou la smithsonite, mais aussi d’autres minéraux de néoformation des fourneaux (oxydes de zinc). 2. Poudre rosâtre, mélange d’oxyde de zinc et d’oxyde ferrique. 3. Résidu charbonneux de la combustion des gaz qui se dépose notamment sur les parois des cylindres de moteurs à explosion, les sièges de soupapes, ou toute pièce en acier subissant un traitement thermique.
noun: 1. Alcaloïde toxique extrait des rhizomes de l'acore odorant.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of calamine
- calamines plural
- calaminée feminine
- calaminés masculine plural
- calaminées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to calamine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is calamine in French?
calamine appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).