iridium
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From international scientific vocabulary, from the New Latin.
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iridium (countable and uncountable, plural iridiums)
- (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.
- 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 75:
- Iridium is extremely rare on the surface of the earth but much more common in meteorites.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
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iridium (uncountable)
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iridium n
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Danish edit
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iridium n
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- “iridium” in Den Danske Ordbog
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iridium n (uncountable)
Finnish edit
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Internationalism (see English iridium).
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iridium
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Inflection of iridium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | iridium | iridiumit | ||
genitive | iridiumin | iridiumien | ||
partitive | iridiumia | iridiumeja | ||
illative | iridiumiin | iridiumeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | iridium | iridiumit | ||
accusative | nom. | iridium | iridiumit | |
gen. | iridiumin | |||
genitive | iridiumin | iridiumien | ||
partitive | iridiumia | iridiumeja | ||
inessive | iridiumissa | iridiumeissa | ||
elative | iridiumista | iridiumeista | ||
illative | iridiumiin | iridiumeihin | ||
adessive | iridiumilla | iridiumeilla | ||
ablative | iridiumilta | iridiumeilta | ||
allative | iridiumille | iridiumeille | ||
essive | iridiumina | iridiumeina | ||
translative | iridiumiksi | iridiumeiksi | ||
abessive | iridiumitta | iridiumeitta | ||
instructive | — | iridiumein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “iridium”, 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
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iridium m (uncountable)
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- “iridium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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New Latin iridium is from Classical Latin iris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”), because of the bright colour of many of the element's salts.
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /iːˈri.di.um/, [iːˈrɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈri.di.um/, [iˈriːd̪ium]
Noun edit
īridium n (genitive īridiī); second declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | īridium | īridia |
Genitive | īridiī | īridiōrum |
Dative | īridiō | īridiīs |
Accusative | īridium | īridia |
Ablative | īridiō | īridiīs |
Vocative | īridium | īridia |
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iridium n
- (uncountable) iridium
- A part of iridium
Malay edit
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From English iridium, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) -ium.
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iridium
- iridium (chemical element)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”) + -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.
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iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) + -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.
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iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)
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- “iridium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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iridium n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of iridiu