ferrous

English

Etymology

From Latin ferrum (“iron”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fĕr'əs, IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹəs

Adjective

ferrous (comparative more ferrous, superlative most ferrous)

1. Of or containing iron.
2. (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.

Antonyms

• nonferrous

Derived terms

• carbon-ferrous
• ferrous chloride
• ferrous ferricyanide
• ferrous fumarate
• ferrous oxide
• ferrous phosphate
• ferrous sulfate, ferrous sulphate
• ferrous sulfide, ferrous sulphide
• non-ferrous

 

Translations

of or containing iron

• Arabic: حَدِيدِيّ m (ḥadīdiyy)
• Armenian: երկաթյա (hy) (erkatʻya), երկաթե (hy) (erkatʻe)
• Bashkir: тимер (timer)
• Breton: houarn (br), houarnek (br)
• Bulgarian: желе́зен (bg) m (želézen)
• Catalan: ferrós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鐵製的／铁制的

• Danish: jern-
• Dutch: ijzeren (nl)
• Faroese: jarn-
• Finnish: rautainen (fi)
• French: ferreux (fr) m
• German: eisern (de), eisenhaltig (de)
• Greek: σιδερένιος (el) m (siderénios)
• Ido: fera (io)
• Interlingua: ferree
• Irish: iarnaí, iarnda, iarnúil
• Italian: ferreo (it), ferroso (it), ferrico (it)
• Japanese: 鉄 (ja) (てつ, tetsu)
• Latin: ferreus
• Latvian: dzelzs-
• Lithuanian: geležinis
• Macedonian: железен m (železen)
• Malay: ferus
• Maori: rino, whairino
• Norwegian: jern-, jernholdig
• Polish: żelazny (pl) m
• Portuguese: férreo (pt), ferroso
• Russian: желе́зный (ru) (želéznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: željezan (sh), železan (sh)
• Slovak: železný (sk)
• Southern Altai: темирлӱ (temirlü)
• Spanish: férreo (es)
• Swedish: järn-
• Ukrainian: залі́зний (zalíznyj)
• Vilamovian: ȧjzera

chemistry

• Catalan: ferrós
• Czech: železnatý
• Irish: iarnúil
• Polish: żelazawy
• Portuguese: ferroso
• Spanish: ferroso (es)
• Swedish: ferro-

See also

• ferric
• ferryl

Anagrams

• for sure, furores