1797, "pertaining to or consisting of stone," from Greek lithikos "of or pertaining to stone," from lithos "stone" (see litho-). From 1875 as "pertaining to lithium.
Entries linking to lithic
litho-
before vowels, lith-, word-forming element meaning "stone, rock;" from Greek lithos "stone, a precious stone, marble; a piece on a game board," a word of unknown origin.
mesolithic adj.
1866 in archaeology, "belonging to the middle Stone Age (in Europe, roughly 15,000 to 5,000 years before the present, between the paleolithic and the neolithic); see meso- "middle" + lithic "consisting of stone." The word was used c. 1859 in a different sense in geology.