Noun: travertine
| Singular | travertine |
| Plural | travertines |
Sample Sentences
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[...] imitation travertine, resembling marble, has been used to cover the station exterior, [...]. [1941 January, “Notes and News: The Hitler Station in Rome”, in Railway Magazine, page 33:]
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Halder stopped outside a seven-storey building sheathed in pale travertine marble. [2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 191:]
Nouns inflected like travertine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian travertino, earlier tivertino, from Latin tīburtīnus (“Tiburtine”). See: Italian Nouns '
travertino', Latin Nouns '
tīburtīnus'.
Verbs referencing "travertine"
Finnish Nouns
travertiini.