helium

See also: Helium and hélium

English

Chemical element
He
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Etymology

From New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) (because its presence was first theorised in the Sun's atmosphere) with the suffix +‎ -ium. Probably coined by Norman Lockyer. This suffix is unusual, because it is usually used only for metallic elements. It is likely that Lockyer, being an astronomer, was unaware of the usual chemical conventions.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hē'lē-əm, IPA^(key): /ˈhiː.li.əm/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: he‧li‧um

Noun

helium (countable and uncountable, plural heliums)

2. (uncountable) The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas.
   • 1997, Ian McEwan, Enduring Love, Vintage (1998), page 3:

     It was an enormous balloon filled with helium, that elemental gas forged from hydrogen in the nuclear furnace of the stars.

3. (countable) A form or sample of the element.

Synonyms

• E939 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

• antiprotonic helium
• heliair
• heliox
• helium-3
• helium-4
• helium balloon
• helium burning
• helium dating
• helium descrambler
• helium flash
• helium fusion
• helium hydride
• helium I
• helium II
• helium speech
• helium star
• helium unscrambler
• helium variable
• liquid helium
• orthohelium
• parahelium

 

Related terms

• helio-
• Helios

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: helium (af)
• Albanian: helium (sq)
• Arabic: هِيلْيُوم m (hilyum)
• Armenian: հելիում (hy) (helium)
• Asturian: heliu (ast)
• Azerbaijani: helium
• Basque: helioa
• Belarusian: ге́лій m (hjélij)
• Bengali: হিলিয়াম (hiliẏam)
• Breton: heliom m
• Bulgarian: хе́лий m (hélij)
• Burmese: ဟီလီယမ် (hiliyam)
• Catalan: heli (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氦 (yue) (hoi⁶)

  Eastern Min: 氦 (hâi)

  Hakka: 氦 (hoi)

  Hokkien: 氦 (hāi)

  Mandarin: 氦 (zh) (hài), 氜 (zh) (rì) (obsolete)

• Chuvash: гели (geli)
• Cornish: helyum
• Corsican: eliu
• Czech: helium (cs) n
• Danish: helium (da) n
• Dutch: helium (nl) n
• Esperanto: heliumo (eo), helio (eo)
• Estonian: heelium (et)
• Faroese: helium n
• Finnish: helium (fi)
• French: hélium (fr) m
• Friulian: eli m
• Galician: helio (gl) m
• Georgian: ჰელიუმი (ka) (heliumi)
• German: Helium (de) n

  Central Franconian: Helium

• Greek: ήλιο (el) n (ílio)
• Gujarati: હીલિયમ (hīliyam)
• Haitian Creole: elyòm
• Hawaiian: hiliuma
• Hebrew: הֶלְיוּם (he) m (helyúm)
• Hindi: यानाति (yānāti), हिलियम (hiliyam)
• Hungarian: hélium (hu)
• Icelandic: helín (is), helíum
• Ido: helio (io)
• Indonesian: helium (id)
• Interlingua: helium
• Irish: héiliam (ga)
• Italian: elio (it) m
• Japanese: ヘリウム (ja) (heriumu)
• Javanese: helium
• Kannada: ಹೀಲಿಯಮ್ (hīliyam)
• Kashubian: él m
• Kazakh: гелий (gelii)
• Khmer: សូរ្យូម (so ryum), អេល្យ៉ូម (ei lyom), អេល្យូម (ʼeelyuum)
• Komi-Zyrian: гелий (geľij)
• Korean: 헬륨 (ko) (hellyum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hêlyûm

• Kyrgyz: гелий (ky) (geliy)
• Lao: ຮີລຽມ (hī līam)
• Latin: helium (la) n
• Latvian: hēlijs (lv) m
• Limburgish: helium (li)
• Lingala: eliyúmu class 9a
• Lithuanian: helis (lt) m
• Lombard: eli m
• Low German: helium
• Luxembourgish: Helium
• Macedonian: хелиум m (helium)
• Malay: helium (ms)
• Malayalam: ഹീലിയം (hīliyaṁ)
• Maltese: ilju m
• Manx: hailium
• Maori: haumāmā
• Marathi: हेलियम (heliyam)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гели (geli)

  Mongolian: ᠾᠧᠯᠢ (hēli)

• Nahuatl: tōnatiuyoh
• Navajo: níłchʼi ászólí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helium (no) n

  Nynorsk: helium (nn) n

• Occitan: èli m
• Persian: هلیم (fa) (heliyom)
• Polish: hel (pl) m
• Portuguese: hélio (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਹੀਲਿਅਮ f (hīliama)

  Shahmukhi: ہیلیم f (helīm)

• Quechua: ilyu, helio
• Romanian: heliu (ro) n
• Russian: ге́лий (ru) m (gélij)
• Sanskrit: हीलियम (hīliyama)
• Santali: ᱦᱤᱞᱤᱭᱟᱢ (hiliyam)
• Scottish Gaelic: hèiliam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хелијум m, хелиј m

  Roman: helijum m, helij (sh) m

• Sinhalese: හීලියම් (hīliyam)
• Slovak: hélium (sk) n
• Slovene: helij (sl) m
• Spanish: helio (es) m
• Sundanese: hélium
• Swahili: heliamu class 9
• Swedish: helium (sv) n
• Tagalog: elyo
• Tajik: гелий (tg) (geliy)
• Tamil: ஹீலியம் (hīliyam), பரிதியம் (paritiyam)
• Thai: ฮีเลียม (th) (hii-lîiam)
• Tibetan: ཧེ་རླུང (he rlung)
• Turkish: helyum (tr)
• Turkmen: geliý
• Ukrainian: ге́лій (uk) m (hélij)
• Upper Sorbian: helium
• Urdu: ہیلیم (hiliyam)
• Uyghur: گېلىي (gëliy)
• Uzbek: geliy (uz)

  Cyrillic: гелий (uz) (geliy)

• Vietnamese: heli (vi), hêli
• Volapük: helin (vo)
• Waray-Waray: helyo
• Welsh: heliwm (cy)
• West Flemish: ^{(please verify)} helium
• West Frisian: helium
• Yiddish: העליום m (helyum)
• Yoruba: hílíọ̀mù

References

• Helium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Afrikaans

Chemical element
He
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Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: he‧li‧um

Noun

helium (uncountable)

1. helium

Hypernyms

• edelgas

Czech

Chemical element
He
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Next: lithium (Li)

Alternative forms

• hélium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin helium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛːlɪjum]
• Hyphenation: he‧lium

Noun

helium n

1. helium

Declension

Declension of helium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	helium	helia
genitive	helia	helií
dative	heliu	heliím
accusative	helium	helia
vocative	helium	helia
locative	heliu	heliích
instrumental	heliem	helii

Danish

Chemical element
He
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Next: lithium (Li)

Noun

helium n (definite singular heliummet or heliumet)

1. (uncountable) helium (chemical symbol He)

Dutch

Chemical element
He
Previous: waterstof (H)
Next: lithium (Li)

Etymology

Borrowed from English helium. Derived from Ancient Greek ἥλῐος (hḗlios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦeː.li.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: he‧li‧um

Noun

helium n (uncountable)

1. helium

Derived terms

• heliumatoom
• heliumballon
• heliumgas

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin hēlium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhelium/, [ˈhe̞lium]
• Rhymes: -elium
• Syllabification^(key): he‧li‧um

Noun

element

He	Previous:	vety
	Next:	litium

helium

1. helium

Declension

Inflection of helium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		helium	heliumit
genitive		heliumin	heliumien
partitive		heliumia	heliumeja
illative		heliumiin	heliumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		helium	heliumit
accusative	nom.	helium	heliumit
	gen.	heliumin
genitive		heliumin	heliumien
partitive		heliumia	heliumeja
inessive		heliumissa	heliumeissa
elative		heliumista	heliumeista
illative		heliumiin	heliumeihin
adessive		heliumilla	heliumeilla
ablative		heliumilta	heliumeilta
allative		heliumille	heliumeille
essive		heliumina	heliumeina
translative		heliumiksi	heliumeiksi
abessive		heliumitta	heliumeitta
instructive		—	heliumein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of helium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative heliumini heliumini accusative nom. heliumini heliumini gen. heliumini genitive heliumini heliumieni partitive heliumiani heliumejani inessive heliumissani heliumeissani elative heliumistani heliumeistani illative heliumiini heliumeihini adessive heliumillani heliumeillani ablative heliumiltani heliumeiltani allative heliumilleni heliumeilleni essive heliuminani heliumeinani translative heliumikseni heliumeikseni abessive heliumittani heliumeittani instructive — — comitative — heliumeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative heliumisi heliumisi accusative nom. heliumisi heliumisi gen. heliumisi genitive heliumisi heliumiesi partitive heliumiasi heliumejasi inessive heliumissasi heliumeissasi elative heliumistasi heliumeistasi illative heliumiisi heliumeihisi adessive heliumillasi heliumeillasi ablative heliumiltasi heliumeiltasi allative heliumillesi heliumeillesi essive heliuminasi heliumeinasi translative heliumiksesi heliumeiksesi abessive heliumittasi heliumeittasi instructive — — comitative — heliumeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative heliumimme heliumimme accusative nom. heliumimme heliumimme gen. heliumimme genitive heliumimme heliumiemme partitive heliumiamme heliumejamme inessive heliumissamme heliumeissamme elative heliumistamme heliumeistamme illative heliumiimme heliumeihimme adessive heliumillamme heliumeillamme ablative heliumiltamme heliumeiltamme allative heliumillemme heliumeillemme essive heliuminamme heliumeinamme translative heliumiksemme heliumeiksemme abessive heliumittamme heliumeittamme instructive — — comitative — heliumeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative heliuminne heliuminne accusative nom. heliuminne heliuminne gen. heliuminne genitive heliuminne heliumienne partitive heliumianne heliumejanne inessive heliumissanne heliumeissanne elative heliumistanne heliumeistanne illative heliumiinne heliumeihinne adessive heliumillanne heliumeillanne ablative heliumiltanne heliumeiltanne allative heliumillenne heliumeillenne essive heliuminanne heliumeinanne translative heliumiksenne heliumeiksenne abessive heliumittanne heliumeittanne instructive — — comitative — heliumeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative heliuminsa heliuminsa accusative nom. heliuminsa heliuminsa gen. heliuminsa genitive heliuminsa heliumiensa partitive heliumiaan heliumiansa heliumejaan heliumejansa inessive heliumissaan heliumissansa heliumeissaan heliumeissansa elative heliumistaan heliumistansa heliumeistaan heliumeistansa illative heliumiinsa heliumeihinsa adessive heliumillaan heliumillansa heliumeillaan heliumeillansa ablative heliumiltaan heliumiltansa heliumeiltaan heliumeiltansa allative heliumilleen heliumillensa heliumeilleen heliumeillensa essive heliuminaan heliuminansa heliumeinaan heliumeinansa translative heliumikseen heliumiksensa heliumeikseen heliumeiksensa abessive heliumittaan heliumittansa heliumeittaan heliumeittansa instructive — — comitative — heliumeineen heliumeinensa

Derived terms

compounds

• heliumleimahdus

 

Further reading

• “helium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Latin

Chemical element
He
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Next: lithium (Li)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈheː.li.um/, [ˈheːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.li.um/, [ˈɛːlium]

Noun

hēlium n (genitive hēliī); second declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) helium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hēlium	hēlia
Genitive	hēliī	hēliōrum
Dative	hēliō	hēliīs
Accusative	hēlium	hēlia
Ablative	hēliō	hēliīs
Vocative	hēlium	hēlia

Descendants

• → Italian: elio

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈheː˨ʎɔ˧m]

Noun

helium n

1. (uncountable) helium
2. A part of helium

Malay

Chemical element
He
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Next: litium (Li)

Alternative forms

• هيليوم

Etymology

From English helium, from New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heliom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

helium (Jawi spelling هيليوم)

1. helium (chemical element)

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian helium.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈheːliːum/

Noun

hēlium

1. helium

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	hēlium
Genitive	hēliuma
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hēlium	hēliumat
Accusative	hēliuma	hēliumiid
Genitive	hēliuma	hēliumiid
Illative	hēliumii	hēliumiidda
Locative	hēliumis	hēliumiin
Comitative	hēliumiin	hēliumiiguin
Essive	hēliumin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person hēliuman hēliumeamẹ hēliumeamẹt 2nd person hēliumat hēliumeattẹ hēliumeattẹt 3rd person hēliumis hēliumeaskkạ hēliumeasẹt

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Chemical element
He
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Noun

helium n (definite singular heliumet)

1. (uncountable) helium (chemical symbol He)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Chemical element
He
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Next: litium (Li)

Noun

helium n (definite singular heliumet)

1. (uncountable) helium (chemical symbol He)

Swedish

Chemical element
He
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Next: litium (Li)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːlɪɵm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

helium n (definite singular heliumet or heliet or helium)

1. (uncountable) helium

Declension

Declension of helium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	helium	heliumet	—	—
Genitive	heliums	heliumets	—	—