cerium

See also: cérium

Contents

EnglishEdit

Chemical element
Ce	Previous: lanthanum (La)
	Next: praseodymium (Pr)

Alternative formsEdit

• cererium (a name proposed (but not accepted) to indicate "cerium" does not come from the Greek word for "wax")

EtymologyEdit

From Ceres (“a recently discovered asteroid”) +‎ -ium.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəriəm/

NounEdit

cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• cerate
• ceric
• cerine
• cerite
• cerium dioxide
• cerium metals

• cerium oxide
• cerium trichloride
• cerous
• ferrocerium

Related termsEdit

• Ceres
• ceria

TranslationsEdit

chemical element

• Afrikaans: serium (af)
• Albanian: cerium (sq)
• Arabic: سِيرْيُوم‎‎ m (siryum)
• Armenian: ցերիում (hy) (cʿerium)
• Asturian: ceriu m
• Basque: zerioa
• Belarusian: цэ́рый m (céryj)
• Breton: seriom
• Bulgarian: це́рий m (cérij)
• Catalan: ceri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈰 (zh) (shì)

• Cornish: keryum
• Czech: cér m, cer (cs) m
• Danish: cerium (da)
• Dutch: cerium (nl) n
• Esperanto: cerio (eo)
• Estonian: tseerium (et)
• Faroese: serium n
• Finnish: cerium (fi)
• French: cérium (fr) m
• Friulian: ceri
• Galician: cerio (gl) m
• Georgian: ცერიუმი (ceriumi)
• German: Cer (de) n
• Greek: δημήτριο (el) n (dimítrio)
• Hebrew: סריום‎‎ (seryum)
• Hindi: पुष्कला (pushkalaa)
• Hungarian: cérium (hu)
• Icelandic: serín (is)
• Irish: ceiriam
• Italian: cerio (it) m
• Japanese: セリウム (ja) (seriumu)
• Kashubian: cer

• Kazakh: церий (kk) (cerïy)
• Korean: 세륨 (ko) (seryum)
• Latin: cerium (la)
• Latvian: cērijs
• Lithuanian: ceris (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Zer
• Macedonian: цериум m (cerium)
• Malay: serium
• Maltese: sirjum
• Manx: kerrium
• Mongolian: цери (tseri)
• Norwegian: cerium
• Persian: سریم‎‎ (seriom)
• Polish: cer (pl) m
• Portuguese: cério (pt) m
• Romanian: ceriu (ro) n
• Russian: це́рий (ru) m (cérij)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceiriam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: церијум m, церијум m

  Roman: cerij (sh) m, cerijum m

• Slovak: cér (sk)
• Slovene: cerij (sl)
• Spanish: cerio (es) m
• Swedish: cerium (sv) n
• Tajik: ceri'
• Thai: ซีเรียม (sii-rîiam)
• Turkish: seryum (tr)
• Ukrainian: це́рiй m (cérij)
• Uzbek: церий (uz), tseriy
• Vietnamese: xeri
• Volapük: zerin (vo)
• Welsh: ceriwm
• West Frisian: cerium

See alsoEdit

• allanite
• bastnasite
• CAN
• hydroxylbastnasite
• jeweler's rouge, jeweller's rouge
• monazite
• orthite
• rhabdophane
• synchysite

AnagramsEdit

• uremic

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

cerium

1. cerium

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DutchEdit

Chemical element
Ce	Previous: lanthaan (La)
	Next: praseodymium (Pr)

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

cerium n (uncountable)

1. cerium

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FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːriu̯m/

NounEdit

cerium

1. cerium

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of cerium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		cerium	—
genitive		ceriumin	—
partitive		ceriumia	—
illative		ceriumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		cerium	—
accusative	nom.	cerium	—
	gen.	ceriumin
genitive		ceriumin	—
partitive		ceriumia	—
inessive		ceriumissa	—
elative		ceriumista	—
illative		ceriumiin	—
adessive		ceriumilla	—
ablative		ceriumilta	—
allative		ceriumille	—
essive		ceriumina	—
translative		ceriumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		ceriumitta	—
comitative		—	—

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek κηρίον (kēríon).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ri.um/, [ˈkeː.ri.ũ]

NounEdit

cērium n (genitive cēriī); second declension

1. A bad species of swelling or ulcer

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cērium	cēria
genitive	cēriī	cēriōrum
dative	cēriō	cēriīs
accusative	cērium	cēria
ablative	cēriō	cēriīs
vocative	cērium	cēria

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ri.um/, [ˈkɛ.ri.ũ]

NounEdit

cerium n (genitive ceriī); second declension

1. cerium

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cerium	ceria
genitive	ceriī	ceriōrum
dative	ceriō	ceriīs
accusative	cerium	ceria
ablative	ceriō	ceriīs
vocative	cerium	ceria

ReferencesEdit

• cerium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

cerium n

1. cerium

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cerium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cerium	ceriumet	—	—
Genitive	ceriums	ceriumets	—	—