Carnelian is a reddish semi-precious stone. A carnelian ring, polished carnelian, a carnelian seal.
It was the favourite stone for seal rings in the ancient world, because hot wax does not stick to it. The name was reshaped under the influence of the Latin for flesh, from the colour.
1nouncarnelianA reddish semi-precious stone.
“Her grandmother's ring had a deep orange carnelian set in old gold.”
carnelian is a stone.
An alteration of cornelian, reshaped under the influence of Latin carneus, fleshy, from the stone's colour.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)ker- (cut)
English, today
carnelian
From cornelian, the red form named carneolus under the influence of Latin carneus (“fleshy”) because of its color.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA