a pink liquid that you put on burnt or painful skin to make it hurt less 爐甘石洗劑(治療皮膚灼傷或疼痛的一種粉紅色水劑) Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin calamina, alteration of Latin cadmia ‘calamine’, from Greek kadmeia (gē) ‘Cadmean (earth)’, from Kadmos ‘Cadmus’, the founder of Thebes in Greek mythology.