cerium

See also: cérium

English

Chemical element
Ce
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Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: sîr'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹiəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cerate
• ceric
• cerine
• cerite
• cerium dioxide
• cerium metals
• cerium oxide
• cerium trichloride
• cerous
• ferrocerium

Related terms

• Ceres
• ceria

Translations

chemical element

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

  Mandarin: 鈰 (zh), 铈 (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 (puṣkalā)
• Hungarian: cérium (hu)
• Icelandic: serín (is)
• Irish: ceiriam
• Italian: cerio (it) m
• Japanese: セリウム (ja) (seriumu)
• Kashubian: cer
• Kazakh: церий (kk) (serii)
• Khmer: សេរ៉្យូម (seeryuum)
• 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 (ceri)
• Norwegian: cerium
• Occitan: cèri m
• 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: церий (tseriy)
• Thai: ซีเรียม (sii-rîiam)
• Turkish: seryum (tr)
• Ukrainian: це́рій (uk) m (cérij)
• Uzbek: церий (uz) (цeriy), tseriy
• Vietnamese: xeri
• Volapük: zerin (vo)
• Welsh: ceriwm
• West Frisian: cerium

See also

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

Anagrams

• uremic

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Danish

Noun

cerium

1. cerium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Ce
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Next: praseodymium (Pr)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish cerium, New Latin cerium or French cérium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.riˌʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ce‧ri‧um

Noun

cerium n (uncountable)

1. cerium [from 1830s or earlier]

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English cerium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːri.um/, [ˈs̠e̞ːri.um]

Noun

cerium

1. cerium

Declension

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		—	—

Possessive forms of cerium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ceriumini	ceriumimme
2nd person	ceriumisi	ceriuminne
3rd person	ceriuminsa

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κηρίον (kēríon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ri.um/, [ˈkeːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

Noun

cērium n (genitive cēriī or cērī); second declension

1. A bad species of swelling or ulcer

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cērium	cēria
Genitive	cēriī cērī1	cēriōrum
Dative	cēriō	cēriīs
Accusative	cērium	cēria
Ablative	cēriō	cēriīs
Vocative	cērium	cēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ri.um/, [ˈkɛriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

Noun

cerium n (genitive ceriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) cerium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cerium	ceria
Genitive	ceriī	ceriōrum
Dative	ceriō	ceriīs
Accusative	cerium	ceria
Ablative	ceriō	ceriīs
Vocative	cerium	ceria

References

• “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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Swedish

Chemical element
Ce
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Noun

cerium n

1. cerium

Declension

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