vanadium

Old Norse Vanadís, a name of the goddess Freyja, +‎ -ium.

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• enPR: vənā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /vəˈneɪdi.əm/

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vanadium (countable and uncountable, plural vanadiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol V) with atomic number 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

• panchromium (name proposed by the mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río)
• rionium (name proposed by the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh)

• Vanadís

• carnotite
• patronite

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vanadium (uncountable)

1. vanadium

• vanadin

From Old Norse Vanadís +‎ -ium. From New Latin vanadium.

vanadium n (singular definite vanadiummet, not used in plural form)

1. vanadium

• “vanadium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from New Latin vanadium or Swedish vanadium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvaːˈnaː.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: va‧na‧di‧um

vanadium n (uncountable)

1. vanadium (chemical element)

• IPA^(key): /va.na.djɔm/

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vanadium m (uncountable)

1. vanadium

• Lingala: vanadu

• “vanadium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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”)).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈna.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈnaː.d̪i.um]

vanadium n (genitive vanadiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) vanadium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)

• IPA^(key): [ʋɑˈnaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

vanadium n

1. (uncountable) vanadium
2. A part of vanadium

From English vanadium.

• IPA^(key): [vanadiom], [vanadiəm], [vənediəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

vanadium

1. vanadium (chemical element)

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

• “vanadium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “vanadium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

• “vanadium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.