Eternit

== German == === Etymology === From Latin aeternus +‎ -it. Coined by Austrian industrialist Ludwig Hatschek in 1903. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /etɛʁˈniːt/ Hyphenation: E‧ter‧nit === Noun === Eternit m (strong, genitive Eternits, plural Eternite) Eternit (brand of fibre cement) Hypernyms: Asbestzementschiefer, Faserzement ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Czech: eternit → English: Eternit → Estonian: eterniit → French: éternit → Polish: eternit → Swedish: eternit === Further reading === “Eternit”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Eternit” in Duden online “Eternit”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008– “Eternit” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon