tellurium

• enPR: tĭlyo͝or'ēəm, IPA^(key): /tɪˈljʊəɹiəm/

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Latin tellūs (“earth”) +‎ -ium

tellurium (countable and uncountable, plural telluriums)

1. (uncountable) The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

• sylvanium (obsolete)

• chalcogen

• calaverite
• nagyagite
• sylvanite

Latin tellus (“earth”).

tellurium

1. Alternative form of tellurion.

• David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Tellurium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tellurium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

tellurium

1. tellurium

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tellurium n (uncountable)

1. tellurium

• telluur

From tellūs (“earth”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛlˈluː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪elˈluː.ri.um]

tellūrium n (genitive tellūriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) tellurium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurier, definite plural telluria or telluriene)

1. tellurion

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurium, definite plural telluria)

1. tellurion

Learned borrowing from New Latin tellūrium. Doublet of tellur.

• IPA^(key): /tɛlˈlu.rjum/
• Rhymes: -urjum
• Syllabification: tel‧lu‧rium

tellurium n

1. (astronomy, historical) orrery, tellurion (instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons)

• tellurium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tellurium in PWN's encyclopedia