Origin of emery
French émeri from Old French emeril from Italian smeriglio from Medieval Greek smeri, for Classical Greek smyris, emery from Indo-European base an unverified form smer-, smearemery

a dark, impure, coarse variety of corundum used for grinding, polishing, etc.
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emery

noun
A fine-grained impure corundum used for grinding and polishing.
Origin of emery
Middle English from Old French emeri, emeril from Late Latin smericulum from Greek smuris, smiris perhaps akin to smēn to wipe, cleanse ( of unknown origin ) or to Hebrew šāmîr a kind of very hard substance (possibly corundum)THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Late Latin smericulum, from Ancient Greek σμῆρις (smēris, “powder used for polishing”) (alternative spelling: σμύρις (smuris)).
Proper noun
Origin
From medieval Germanic personal names, either a variant of Amory, from Amalric, Proto-Germanic *amal (“vigor, bravery”) + rīhhi (“ruler”), or of Henry, from Heimrich, from heim (“home”) + rīhhi (“ruler”).
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Sentence Examples
- Other minerals are emery, limestone and quartz.
- Now Bernadotte Emery walker, sc.
- In emery, magnetite in a granular form is largely associated with the corundum; and in certain kinds of mica magnetite occurs as thin dendritic enclosures.
- The empire is rich in minerals, including gold, silver, lead, copper, iron, coal, mercury, borax, emery, zinc; and only capital is needed for successful exploitation.
- The concessions are to be for 99 years with the exception of chrome, emery, boracite and other minerals found only in the form of deposits, which may be granted for not less than 40 years or more than 99 years.
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