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Xenon

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means a rare, colorless, inert gaseous element used in some lighting and flash lamps
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Stage 1 of 2
xenos
Greek · ancient
"a stranger, foreigner"
literally stranger, foreign, describing the rare, unfamiliar gas
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Stage 2 of 2
xenon
English · 1898
"a rare inert gaseous element"
coined by its discoverers for the rare inert gas
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