zirconium

From a New Latin coinage, from zircon. Doublet of jargonium.

• enPR: zûrkō'nēəm, IPA^(key): /zɜːɹˈkoʊniəm/

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zirconium (countable and uncountable, plural zirconiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
   • 2005, Tally Hall, “Ruler of Everything”, in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum‎^[1]:

     Do you like how I dance? / I've got zirconium pants / Consequential enough / To slip you into a trance

• baddeleyite
• hyacinth
• jacinth
• jargon
• ligure

• zirkonium
• zirkon

From German Zirkon +‎ -ium.

zirconium n (singular definite zirconiummet, not used in plural form)

1. zirconium

• “zirconium” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ziʁ.kɔ.njɔm/

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zirconium m (uncountable)

1. zirconium

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [zɪrˈkoː.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪͡z̪irˈkɔː.ni.um]

zircōnium n (genitive zircōniī); second declension

1. zirconium

Second-declension noun (neuter).