cerium

See also: cérium

Contents

English

Chemical element
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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/

Noun

cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)

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

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 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: це́рій (uk) m (cérij)
• Uzbek: церий (uz), 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	Previous: lanthaan (La)
	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

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		—	—

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κηρίον (kēríon).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cērium n (genitive cēriī); second declension

1. A bad species of swelling or ulcer

Declension

Second declension.

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/, [ˈkɛ.ri.ũː]

Noun

cerium n (genitive ceriī); second declension

1. cerium

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cerium	ceria
Genitive	ceriī cerī1	ceriōrum
Dative	ceriō	ceriīs
Accusative	cerium	ceria
Ablative	ceriō	ceriīs
Vocative	cerium	ceria

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

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

Noun

cerium n

1. cerium

Declension

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