scandium

la-noun

scandium n (genitive scandiī); second declension

scandiī (genitive)
scandium (nominative singular)
scandia (nominative plural)
scandiī (genitive singular)
scandiōrum (genitive plural)
scandiō (dative singular)
scandiīs (dative plural)
scandium (accusative singular)
scandia (accusative plural)
scandiō (ablative singular)
scandiīs (ablative plural)
scandium (singular vocative)
scandia (plural vocative)

[ˈs̠kän̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]

Coined in 1869 by chemist Lars Fredrik Nilson, derived from Scandia (“Scandinavia”) + -ium (chemical element suffix).


titanium

la-noun

tītānium n (genitive tītāniī); second declension

tītānium (canonical neuter)
tītāniī (genitive)
tītānium (nominative singular)
tītānia (nominative plural)
tītāniī (genitive singular)
tītāniōrum (genitive plural)
tītāniō (dative singular)
tītāniīs (dative plural)
tītānium (accusative singular)
tītānia (accusative plural)
tītāniō (ablative singular)
tītāniīs (ablative plural)
tītānium (singular vocative)
tītānia (plural vocative)

[t̪iːˈt̪äːniʊ̃ˑ]

Coined in 1791 by chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, derived from Tītān (“Titan”) + -ium (chemical element suffix).


vanadium

la-noun

vanadium n (genitive vanadiī); second declension

vanadiī (genitive)
vanadium (nominative singular)
vanadia (nominative plural)
vanadiī (genitive singular)
vanadiōrum (genitive plural)
vanadiō (dative singular)
vanadiīs (dative plural)
vanadium (accusative singular)
vanadia (accusative plural)
vanadiō (ablative singular)
vanadiīs (ablative plural)
vanadium (singular vocative)
vanadia (plural vocative)

[u̯äˈnäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]

Derived from Old Norse Vanadis, (one of the names of Freyja, goddess of beauty) + -ium (chemical element suffix), in reference to the many beautifully colored chemical compounds it produces. The Norse name is a compound of the names Vana (from vanr (“lacking, missing”)) and Dis (from dís (“goddess”)).


chromium

chrōmium n (genitive chrōmiī); second declension

chrōmium (canonical neuter)
chrōmiī (genitive)
chrōmium (nominative singular)
chrōmia (nominative plural)
chrōmiī (genitive singular)
chrōmiōrum (genitive plural)
chrōmiō (dative singular)
chrōmiīs (dative plural)
chrōmium (accusative singular)
chrōmia (accusative plural)
chrōmiō (ablative singular)
chrōmiīs (ablative plural)
chrōmium (singular vocative)
chrōmia (plural vocative)

→ Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် (hka.ruimiyam)

→ Chinese: 鉻 /铬 (gè)

→ Cornish: cromyum

→ English: chromium

→ Greek: χρώμιο (chrómio)

→ Hindi: क्रोमियम (kromiyam)

→ Irish: cróimiam

→ Korean: 크로뮴 (keuromyum)

→ Malay: kromium

→ Maltese: kromju

→ Manx: cromium

→ Maori: koromiama

→ Portuguese: crómio, crômio

→ Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam

→ Swahili: chromi

→ Thai: โครเมียม (kroo-mîiam)

→ Urdu: کرومیم (kromiyam)

→ Welsh: cromiwm

→ Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (kroumyam)


yttrium

yttrium n (genitive yttriī); second declension

yttriī (genitive)
yttrium (nominative singular)
yttria (nominative plural)
yttriī (genitive singular)
yttriōrum (genitive plural)
yttriō (dative singular)
yttriīs (dative plural)
yttrium (accusative singular)
yttria (accusative plural)
yttriō (ablative singular)
yttriīs (ablative plural)
yttrium (singular vocative)
yttria (plural vocative)

[ˈʏt̪ːriʊ̃ˑ]


zirconium

zircōnium n (genitive zircōniī); second declension

zircōnium (canonical neuter)
zircōniī (genitive)
zircōnium (nominative singular)
zircōnia (nominative plural)
zircōniī (genitive singular)
zircōniōrum (genitive plural)
zircōniō (dative singular)
zircōniīs (dative plural)
zircōnium (accusative singular)
zircōnia (accusative plural)
zircōniō (ablative singular)
zircōniīs (ablative plural)
zircōnium (singular vocative)
zircōnia (plural vocative)

[d̪͡z̪ɪrˈkoːniʊ̃ˑ]


niobium

niobium n (genitive niobiī); second declension

niobiī (genitive)
niobium (nominative singular)
niobia (nominative plural)
niobiī (genitive singular)
niobiōrum (genitive plural)
niobiō (dative singular)
niobiīs (dative plural)
niobium (accusative singular)
niobia (accusative plural)
niobiō (ablative singular)
niobiīs (ablative plural)
niobium (singular vocative)
niobia (plural vocative)


technetium

technētium n (genitive technētiī); second declension

technētium (canonical neuter)
technētiī (genitive)
technētium (nominative singular)
technētia (nominative plural)
technētiī (genitive singular)
technētiōrum (genitive plural)
technētiō (dative singular)
technētiīs (dative plural)
technētium (accusative singular)
technētia (accusative plural)
technētiō (ablative singular)
technētiīs (ablative plural)
technētium (singular vocative)
technētia (plural vocative)

[t̪ɛkʰˈneːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]


ruthenium

ruthenium n (genitive rutheniī); second declension

rutheniī (genitive)
ruthenium (nominative singular)
ruthenia (nominative plural)
rutheniī (genitive singular)
rutheniōrum (genitive plural)
rutheniō (dative singular)
rutheniīs (dative plural)
ruthenium (accusative singular)
ruthenia (accusative plural)
rutheniō (ablative singular)
rutheniīs (ablative plural)
ruthenium (singular vocative)
ruthenia (plural vocative)

[rʊˈt̪ʰɛniʊ̃ˑ]


rhodium

rhodium n (genitive rhodiī); second declension

rhodiī (genitive)
rhodium (nominative singular)
rhodia (nominative plural)
rhodiī (genitive singular)
rhodiōrum (genitive plural)
rhodiō (dative singular)
rhodiīs (dative plural)
rhodium (accusative singular)
rhodia (accusative plural)
rhodiō (ablative singular)
rhodiīs (ablative plural)
rhodium (singular vocative)
rhodia (plural vocative)

→ Danish: rhodium

→ Dutch: rhodium

→ English: rhodium

→ French: rhodium

→ German: Rhodium

→ Italian: rodio

→ Luxembourgish: Rhodium

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: rhodium

Norwegian Nynorsk: rhodium

→ Spanish: rodio

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).


palladium

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension

palladiī (genitive)
palladium (nominative singular)
palladia (nominative plural)
palladiī (genitive singular)
palladiōrum (genitive plural)
palladiō (dative singular)
palladiīs (dative plural)
palladium (accusative singular)
palladia (accusative plural)
palladiō (ablative singular)
palladiīs (ablative plural)
palladium (singular vocative)
palladia (plural vocative)

[pälˈlʲäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities


cadmium

cadmium n (genitive cadmiī); second declension

cadmiī (genitive)
cadmium (nominative singular)
cadmia (nominative plural)
cadmiī (genitive singular)
cadmiōrum (genitive plural)
cadmiō (dative singular)
cadmiīs (dative plural)
cadmium (accusative singular)
cadmia (accusative plural)
cadmiō (ablative singular)
cadmiīs (ablative plural)
cadmium (singular vocative)
cadmia (plural vocative)

[ˈkäd̪miʊ̃ˑ]


tantalum

tantalum n (genitive tantalī); second declension

tantalī (genitive)
tantalum (nominative singular)
tantala (nominative plural)
tantalī (genitive singular)
tantalōrum (genitive plural)
tantalō (dative singular)
tantalīs (dative plural)
tantalum (accusative singular)
tantala (accusative plural)
tantalō (ablative singular)
tantalīs (ablative plural)
tantalum (singular vocative)
tantala (plural vocative)

[ˈt̪än̪t̪äɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]


rutherfordium

rutherfordium n (genitive rutherfordiī); second declension

rutherfordiī (genitive)
rutherfordium (nominative singular)
rutherfordia (nominative plural)
rutherfordiī (genitive singular)
rutherfordiōrum (genitive plural)
rutherfordiō (dative singular)
rutherfordiīs (dative plural)
rutherfordium (accusative singular)
rutherfordia (accusative plural)
rutherfordiō (ablative singular)
rutherfordiīs (ablative plural)
rutherfordium (singular vocative)
rutherfordia (plural vocative)

[rʊt̪ʰɛrˈfɔrd̪iʊ̃ˑ]


dubnium

dubnium n (genitive dubniī); second declension

dubniī (genitive)
dubnium (nominative singular)
dubnia (nominative plural)
dubniī (genitive singular)
dubniōrum (genitive plural)
dubniō (dative singular)
dubniīs (dative plural)
dubnium (accusative singular)
dubnia (accusative plural)
dubniō (ablative singular)
dubniīs (ablative plural)
dubnium (singular vocative)
dubnia (plural vocative)

[ˈd̪ʊbniʊ̃ˑ]


ferrum

ferrum n (genitive ferrī); second declension

ferrī (genitive)
ferrum (nominative singular)
ferra (nominative plural)
ferrī (genitive singular)
ferrōrum (genitive plural)
ferrō (dative singular)
ferrīs (dative plural)
ferrum (accusative singular)
ferra (accusative plural)
ferrō (ablative singular)
ferrīs (ablative plural)
ferrum (singular vocative)
ferra (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: her, heru, hjeru

Istro-Romanian: fľer

Megleno-Romanian: ier, ieru

Romanian: fier, fer — regional

Dalmatian:

fiar

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: ferru, farru

Italian: ferro

→? Sabir: ferro

Neapolitan: fierro

Tarantino: fierro

Sicilian: ferru

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: fèr

Ligurian: færo

Lombard: fèr

Piedmontese: fer

Romagnol: fër

Friulian: fiêr

Istriot: fièro

Ladin: fer

Romansch: fier

Venetan: fero

Gallo-Romance:

desc

Franco-Provençal: fèr, fèrro, fa, far, farou, fè, fê

desctree

Old French: fer, fier
Middle French: fer
French: fer (see there for further descendants)
Norman: fé (France, Jersey), faer (Guernsey), fer (Sark)
Walloon: fier

Occitano-Romance:

Gascon: hèr

Occitan: fèrre, ferri, fèr

Old Catalan: ferr, ferre, ferro

Catalan: ferro

Ibero-Romance:

Navarro-Aragonese: fierro

Aragonese: fierro

Ribagorçan: ferri

Old Leonese: fierru

desc

Asturian: fierro, fierru, ḥierru, ḥierro

Extremaduran: hierru

Leonese: fierru

Mirandese: fierro

Old Galician-Portuguese: ferro

Fala: ferru

Galician: ferro

Portuguese: ferro (see there for further descendants)

desctree

Old Spanish: fierro
Ladino: fierro
Spanish: fierro, hierro
Papiamentu: heru

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: ferru (most dialects), erru (most Nuorese varieties)

Borrowings:

→ English: ferrum

→ Malay: ferum

→ Translingual: Fe

From earlier *ferzom, from a substrate loanword from an unknown source. According to de Vaan, possibly from a Phoenician dialect, 𐤁𐤓𐤆𐤋 (brzl /barzel/, “iron”), akin to Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא, ܦܪܙܠܐ (parzəlā, “iron”), Akkadian 𒀭𒁇 (parzillum, “iron”), Ugaritic 𐎁𐎗𐎏𐎍 (brḏl, “iron”), considered of Anatolian origin. The word could have entered Latin through Etruscan.

unk

unknown

cog

Aramaic פַּרְזְלָא


argentum

la-noun

argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension

argentī (genitive)
argentum (nominative singular)
argenta (nominative plural)
argentī (genitive singular)
argentōrum (genitive plural)
argentō (dative singular)
argentīs (dative plural)
argentum (accusative singular)
argenta (accusative plural)
argentō (ablative singular)
argentīs (ablative plural)
argentum (singular vocative)
argenta (plural vocative)

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: arghentu (Logudorese), argentu (Campidanese)

Balkan Romance:

Megleno-Romanian: arzint, arzintu, răzint

Romanian: argint

→ Albanian: argjend (see there for further descendants)

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: argentu

Gallurese: algentu

Dalmatian: arziant

Italian: argento, ariento (obsolete)

Sicilian: argentu, arjentu (dated)

Venetan: arxento

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: arint

Romansch: argient, argien (Sursilvan)

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: argénto

Lombard: arsgent, arzent

Piedmontese: argent

Romagnol: arẓént

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: argent

Old French: argent (see there for further descendants)

desctree

Old Occitan: argent, argen
Occitan: argent
→ Old Spanish: argent

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: archent

Old Galician-Portuguese: arento

Old Spanish: ariento

Borrowings:

→ Galician: arxento

→ Malay: argentum

→ Portuguese: argento

→ Spanish: argento

[ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]

From Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n.

Tacitus Germania, chapter 5 (translation M. Hutton).
Argentum et aurum propitiine an irati di negaverint dubito.
The gods have denied them gold and silver, whether in mercy or wrath I find it hard to say.


hydrargyrum

la-noun

hydrargyrum n (genitive hydrargyrī); second declension

hydrargyrī (genitive)
hydrargyrum (nominative singular)
hydrargyra (nominative plural)
hydrargyrī (genitive singular)
hydrargyrōrum (genitive plural)
hydrargyrō (dative singular)
hydrargyrīs (dative plural)
hydrargyrum (accusative singular)
hydrargyra (accusative plural)
hydrargyrō (ablative singular)
hydrargyrīs (ablative plural)
hydrargyrum (singular vocative)
hydrargyra (plural vocative)

Translingual: Hg

English: hydrargyrum

French: hydrargyre

desc

гидра́ргирум

Russian: гидра́ргирум (gidrárgirum)

An alteration of the Classical Latin hydrargyrus (“quicksilver (artificially prepared)”), by analogy with the names of other metals, such as aurum (“gold”) and argentum (“silver”).

cog

[hʏˈd̪rärɡʏrʊ̃ˑ]


aurum

la-noun

aurum n (genitive aurī); second declension

aurī (genitive)
aurum (nominative singular)
aurī (genitive singular)
aurō (dative singular)
aurum (accusative singular)
aurō (ablative singular)
aurum (singular vocative)

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: avru

Istro-Romanian: aur

Romanian: aur

Dalmatian:

jaur, yaur, uar, vuar, iuar

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: oru

Italian: oro

→ Esperanto: oro

→ Sardinian: oru, oro

Neapolitan: oro

Sicilian: oru, àuru

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: òr, ôr

Ligurian: öo

Lombard: òr

Piedmontese: òr

Romagnol: or

Friulian: aur

Ladin: or

Romansch: aur, or, ôr

Venetan: oro

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: or, eu, eur, ouâ

Occitan: aur

Old Catalan: or, aur

Catalan: or

desctree

Old French: or
Middle French: or, aur (alternate Latinized spelling)
French: or
Haitian Creole: lò
→ English: or
Walloon: ôr

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: oro

Old Leonese:

Asturian: oru

Extremaduran: oru

Leonese: ouru, oru

Mirandese: ouro

Old Galician-Portuguese: ouro
Galician: ouro
Portuguese: ouro (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish: oro

Ladino: oro

Spanish: oro

Ancient borrowings:

→ Albanian: ar

→ Old Irish: ór
Irish: ór
Manx: airh
Scottish Gaelic: òr

→ Proto-Brythonic: *awr
Breton: aour
Old Cornish: our
Cornish: owr
Old Welsh: our
Welsh: awr
Middle Welsh: eur (probably < Latin aureus)
Welsh: aur

Later borrowings:

→ English: aurum

→ Italian: auro, auro-

Rhoticization of Old Latin ausum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-óm (“gold”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”). Cognate with Lithuanian áuksas, Old Lithuanian ausas, Old Prussian ausis, Tocharian A wäs, Tocharian B yasā.

any object made of gold, such as a gold coin or a gold ring


cuprum

la-noun

cuprum n (genitive cuprī); second declension

cuprī (genitive)
cuprum (nominative singular)
cupra (nominative plural)
cuprī (genitive singular)
cuprōrum (genitive plural)
cuprō (dative singular)
cuprīs (dative plural)
cuprum (accusative singular)
cupra (accusative plural)
cuprō (ablative singular)
cuprīs (ablative plural)
cuprum (singular vocative)
cupra (plural vocative)

West Iberian

Asturian: cobre

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: cobre

Portuguese: cobre

Spanish: cobre

→ Basque: kobre

Catalan: coure

desc

Old French: cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre

Bourguignon: cueuvre, cuvre

Champenois: cuevre

French: cuivre

→ Breton: kouevr

Occitan: coire

Borrowings

→ Proto-West Germanic: *kopr (see there for further descendants)

→ Malay: kuprum

→ Romanian: cupru

→⇒ English: cupro-, cupric

→⇒ Italian: cupro-, cuprico

From cyprium (“copper”), elliptical for aes Cyprium, Cyprium aes (literally “Cypriote copper”), after the large reserves of the metal found on the island of Cyprus.


zincum

la-noun

zincum n (genitive zincī); second declension

zincī (genitive)
zincum (nominative singular)
zinca (nominative plural)
zincī (genitive singular)
zincōrum (genitive plural)
zincō (dative singular)
zincīs (dative plural)
zincum (accusative singular)
zinca (accusative plural)
zincō (ablative singular)
zincīs (ablative plural)
zincum (singular vocative)
zinca (plural vocative)

[ˈd̪͡z̪ɪŋkʊ̃ˑ]


ferraria

ferrāria f (genitive ferrāriae); first declension

ferrāria (canonical feminine)
ferrāriae (genitive)
ferrāria (nominative singular)
ferrāriae (nominative plural)
ferrāriae (genitive singular)
ferrāriārum (genitive plural)
ferrāriae (dative singular)
ferrāriīs (dative plural)
ferrāriam (accusative singular)
ferrāriās (accusative plural)
ferrāriā (ablative singular)
ferrāriīs (ablative plural)
ferrāria (singular vocative)
ferrāriae (plural vocative)


cobaltum

cōbaltum n (genitive cōbaltī); second declension

cōbaltum (canonical neuter)
cōbaltī (genitive)
cōbaltum (nominative singular)
cōbalta (nominative plural)
cōbaltī (genitive singular)
cōbaltōrum (genitive plural)
cōbaltō (dative singular)
cōbaltīs (dative plural)
cōbaltum (accusative singular)
cōbalta (accusative plural)
cōbaltō (ablative singular)
cōbaltīs (ablative plural)
cōbaltum (singular vocative)
cōbalta (plural vocative)

[koːˈbäɫ̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]


manganum

manganum n (genitive manganī); second declension

manganī (genitive)
manganum (nominative singular)
mangana (nominative plural)
manganī (genitive singular)
manganōrum (genitive plural)
manganō (dative singular)
manganīs (dative plural)
manganum (accusative singular)
mangana (accusative plural)
manganō (ablative singular)
manganīs (ablative plural)
manganum (singular vocative)
mangana (plural vocative)

New Latin, altered from Medieval Latin magnesia.

[ˈmäŋɡänʊ̃ˑ]


molybdaenum

molybdaenum n (genitive molybdaenī); second declension

molybdaenī (genitive)
molybdaenum (nominative singular)
molybdaena (nominative plural)
molybdaenī (genitive singular)
molybdaenōrum (genitive plural)
molybdaenō (dative singular)
molybdaenīs (dative plural)
molybdaenum (accusative singular)
molybdaena (accusative plural)
molybdaenō (ablative singular)
molybdaenīs (ablative plural)
molybdaenum (singular vocative)
molybdaena (plural vocative)

[mɔlʲʏbˈd̪äe̯nʊ̃ˑ]

From New Latin molybdaena (“any of various substances resembling lead, including lead and molybdenum, their sulphides, and graphite”), from Ancient Greek μολύβδαινα (molúbdaina, “a plummet”), from μόλυβδος (mólubdos, “lead; graphite”), from an Anatolian word cognate with Lydian 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠 (mariwda, “dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *morkʷ-iyo-, from a root *morkʷ- (“dark”).
Attested since the last quarter of 18th century.


niccolum

la-noun

niccolum n (genitive niccolī); second declension

niccolī (genitive)
niccolum (nominative singular)
niccola (nominative plural)
niccolī (genitive singular)
niccolōrum (genitive plural)
niccolō (dative singular)
niccolīs (dative plural)
niccolum (accusative singular)
niccola (accusative plural)
niccolō (ablative singular)
niccolīs (ablative plural)
niccolum (singular vocative)
niccola (plural vocative)

[ˈnɪkːɔɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]


ballux

ballūx f (genitive ballūcis); third declension

ballūx (canonical feminine)
ballūcis (genitive)
ballūx (nominative singular)
ballūcēs (nominative plural)
ballūcis (genitive singular)
ballūcum (genitive plural)
ballūcī (dative singular)
ballūcibus (dative plural)
ballūcem (accusative singular)
ballūcēs (accusative plural)
ballūce (ablative singular)
ballūcibus (ablative plural)
ballūx (singular vocative)
ballūcēs (plural vocative)

Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, cognate with Galician baluga. Doublet of ballūca.

bor+

c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.21

86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 12.57.9


balux

la-noun

balūx f (genitive balūcis); third declension

balūx (canonical feminine)
balūcis (genitive)
balūx (nominative singular)
balūcēs (nominative plural)
balūcis (genitive singular)
balūcum (genitive plural)
balūcī (dative singular)
balūcibus (dative plural)
balūcem (accusative singular)
balūcēs (accusative plural)
balūce (ablative singular)
balūcibus (ablative plural)
balūx (singular vocative)
balūcēs (plural vocative)

[ˈbäɫ̪uːks̠]

Alternative spelling of ballūx (“gold dust”)


baluca

balūca f (genitive balūcae); first declension

balūca (canonical feminine)
balūcae (genitive)
balūca (nominative singular)
balūcae (nominative plural)
balūcae (genitive singular)
balūcārum (genitive plural)
balūcae (dative singular)
balūcīs (dative plural)
balūcam (accusative singular)
balūcās (accusative plural)
balūcā (ablative singular)
balūcīs (ablative plural)
balūca (singular vocative)
balūcae (plural vocative)

Alternative spelling of ballūca (“gold dust”)


balluca

ballūca f (genitive ballūcae); first declension

ballūca (canonical feminine)
ballūcae (genitive)
ballūca (nominative singular)
ballūcae (nominative plural)
ballūcae (genitive singular)
ballūcārum (genitive plural)
ballūcae (dative singular)
ballūcīs (dative plural)
ballūcam (accusative singular)
ballūcās (accusative plural)
ballūcā (ablative singular)
ballūcīs (ablative plural)
ballūca (singular vocative)
ballūcae (plural vocative)

Galician: baluga

Borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Doublet of ballūx.

438 CE, Codex Theodosianus 10.19.3