mendelevium

See also: Mendelevium, mendelévium, and mendélévium

English

Chemical element
Md
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Alternative forms

• mendeleevium (rare)
• mendeleyevium (rare)

Etymology

From Mendeleev +‎ -ium; named after the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table. The same name was proposed, but rejected, for the earlier-discovered elements berkelium and erbium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕndəlēv'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmɛndəˈliːviəm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

mendelevium (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101.

Synonyms

• unnilunium

Related terms

• Mendeleev
• mendelevate

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: mendelevium (af)
• Albanian: mendelevium
• Arabic: مَنْدَلِفْيُوم‎ m (mandalifyum)
• Armenian: մենդելեւիում (mendelewium)
• Asturian: mendeleviu (ast) m
• Basque: mendelebioa
• Belarusian: мендзяле́вій m (mjendzjaljévij)
• Breton: mendeleviom (br)
• Bulgarian: менделе́вий m (mendelévij)
• Catalan: mendelevi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鍆／钔 (zh) (mén)

• Cornish: mendelevyum
• Czech: mendelevium (cs)
• Danish: mendelevium (da) n
• Dutch: mendelevium (nl) n
• Esperanto: mendelevio (eo)
• Estonian: mendeleevium (et)
• Faroese: mendelevium n
• Finnish: mendelevium (fi)
• French: mendélévium (fr) m
• Friulian: mendelevi
• Galician: mendelevio (gl)
• Georgian: მენდელეევიუმი (mendeleeviumi)
• German: Mendelevium (de) n
• Greek: μεντελέβιο (el) n (mentelévio)
• Hebrew: מנדלביום‎ (he) (mendelevyum)
• Hungarian: mendelévium (hu)
• Icelandic: mendelevín (is)
• Irish: meindiléiviam
• Italian: mendelevio (it) m
• Japanese: メンデレビウム (ja) (menderebiumu)
• Kashubian: mendeléw
• Kazakh: менделевий (mendelevii)
• Korean: 멘델레븀 (ko) (mendellebyum)
• Latin: mendelelevium
• Latvian: mendelevijs
• Lithuanian: mendelevis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Mendelevium
• Macedonian: менделевиум m (mendelevium)
• Malay: mendelevium
• Maltese: mendelevjum
• Manx: mendelevium
• Mongolian: менделеби (mendelebi)
• Norwegian: mendelevium
• Polish: mendelew (pl) m
• Portuguese: mendelévio (pt) m
• Romanian: mendeleviu (ro) n
• Russian: менделе́вий (ru) m (mendelévij)
• Scottish Gaelic: meindilèiviam
• Serbo-Croatian: мендељевиj m, мендељевиjум m

  Roman: mendeljevij, mendeljevijum

• Slovak: mendelevium n
• Slovene: mendelevij (sl) m
• Spanish: mendelevio (es) m
• Swedish: mendelevium (sv)
• Tajik: менделевий (mendeleviy)
• Tamil: மெண்டலேவியம் (meṇṭalēviyam)
• Thai: เมนเดลีเวียม (men-dee-lii-wîiam)
• Turkish: mendelevyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: менделє́вій m (mendeljévij)
• Uyghur: مېندېلېيېۋىي‎ (mëndëlëyëwiy)
• Uzbek: mendeleviy, менделеевий (mendeleeviy)
• Vietnamese: menđelevi
• Volapük: mendelevin (vo)
• Welsh: mendelefiwm
• West Frisian: mendelevium

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Md
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Noun

mendelevium (uncountable)

1. mendelevium

Danish

Noun

mendelevium

1. mendelevium

Dutch

Chemical element
Md
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Next: nobelium (No)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

mendelevium n (uncountable)

1. mendelevium

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English mendelevium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmendeleʋium/, [ˈme̞nde̞ˌle̞ʋium]
• Rhymes: -eʋium
• Syllabification^(key): men‧de‧le‧vi‧um

Noun

mendelevium

1. mendelevium

Declension

Inflection of mendelevium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		mendelevium	mendeleviumit
genitive		mendeleviumin	mendeleviumien
partitive		mendeleviumia	mendeleviumeja
illative		mendeleviumiin	mendeleviumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mendelevium	mendeleviumit
accusative	nom.	mendelevium	mendeleviumit
	gen.	mendeleviumin
genitive		mendeleviumin	mendeleviumien
partitive		mendeleviumia	mendeleviumeja
inessive		mendeleviumissa	mendeleviumeissa
elative		mendeleviumista	mendeleviumeista
illative		mendeleviumiin	mendeleviumeihin
adessive		mendeleviumilla	mendeleviumeilla
ablative		mendeleviumilta	mendeleviumeilta
allative		mendeleviumille	mendeleviumeille
essive		mendeleviumina	mendeleviumeina
translative		mendeleviumiksi	mendeleviumeiksi
instructive		—	mendeleviumein
abessive		mendeleviumitta	mendeleviumeitta
comitative		—	mendeleviumeineen

Possessive forms of mendelevium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	mendeleviumini	mendeleviumimme
2nd person	mendeleviumisi	mendeleviuminne
3rd person	mendeleviuminsa

Latin

Chemical element
Md
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Next: nobelium (No)

Etymology

Named after Russian chemist and inventor Дми́трий Ива́нович Менделе́ев (Dmítrij Ivánovič Mendeléev) (1834–1907).
Derived from Mendeleev +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /men.deˈleː.u̯i.um/, [mɛn̪d̪ɛˈɫ̪eːu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /men.deˈle.vi.um/, [men̪d̪eˈlɛːvium]

Noun

mendelēvium n (genitive mendelēviī); second declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) mendelevium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mendelēvium	mendelēvia
Genitive	mendelēviī	mendelēviōrum
Dative	mendelēviō	mendelēviīs
Accusative	mendelēvium	mendelēvia
Ablative	mendelēviō	mendelēviīs
Vocative	mendelēvium	mendelēvia

Descendants

• → English: mendelevium
• → Italian: mendelevio

Malay

Chemical element
Md
Previous: fermium (Fm)
Next: nobelium (No)

Etymology

From English mendelevium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛndəlɛviom], [mɛndəlɛviəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

mendelevium

1. mendelevium (chemical element)

Slovak

Chemical element
Md
Previous: fermium (Fm)
Next: nobelium (no)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛndɛlɛvium/

Noun

mendelevium n (genitive singular mendelevia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. mendelevium (element)

Declension

Declension of mendelevium

	singulare tantum
nominative	mendelevium
genitive	mendelevia
dative	mendeleviu
accusative	mendelevium
locative	mendeleviu
instrumental	mendeleviom

Further reading

• mendelevium in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk