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"It is perhaps of significance that the salt is blackened by ammonia and alkalis" [Flood].</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:1670s">1670s</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to calomel">Entries linking to <i>calomel</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Callisto" href="/word/Callisto#etymonline_v_608">Callisto<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>in classical mythology a nymph, mother of Arcas by Zeus, turned to a bear by Hera, from Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">kallistos</span>, superlative of <span class="foreign notranslate">kalos</span> "beautiful, beauteous, noble, good," and its derived noun <span class="foreign notranslate">kallos</span> "beauty," from <span class="foreign notranslate">*kal-wo-</span>, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Sanskrit <span class="foreign notranslate">kalyana</span> "beautiful." The usual combining form in Greek was <span class="foreign notranslate">kalli-</span> "beautiful, fine, happy, favorable;" <span class="foreign notranslate">kalo-</span> was a later, rarer alternative form. Also a name given to the fourth moon of Jupiter in 17c. but not widely used before mid-19c. 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