palladium

See also: Palladium and palládium

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an alternative name for Athena.

NounEdit

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.
   • Blackstone

     The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

TranslationsEdit

a safeguard

• German: Schutz (de) m
• Russian: палла́диум (ru) m (palládium)

• Serbo-Croatian: paladij (sh) m
• Spanish: paladión (es) f

Etymology 2Edit

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

Chemical element
Pd	Previous: rhodium (Rh)
	Next: silver (Ag)

NounEdit

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• dioxide of palladium
• pallad-
• palladic
• palladiferous
• palladio-
• palladious, palladous
• palladium chloride

• palladium cyanide
• palladium dichloride
• palladium dinitrate
• palladium hydride
• palladiumise, palladiumize
• palladium nitrate
• protoxide of palladium

Related termsEdit

• Pallas

TranslationsEdit

chemical element

• Afrikaans: palladium
• Albanian: palad
• Arabic: بَلَادْيُوم‏‎ m (baladyum)
• Armenian: պալադիում (hy) (paladium)
• Asturian: paladiu m
• Basque: paladioa
• Belarusian: паладый m (paládyj)
• Breton: palladiom
• Bulgarian: паладий m (paládij)
• Catalan: pal·ladi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈀, 钯 (bǎ)

  Mandarin: 鈀 (zh), 钯 (zh) (bǎ)

• Cornish: paladyum
• Czech: palladium (cs)
• Danish: palladium (da)
• Dutch: palladium (nl) n
• Esperanto: paladio (eo)
• Estonian: pallaadium (et)
• Faroese: palladium
• Finnish: palladium (fi)
• French: palladium (fr) m
• Friulian: paladi
• Galician: paladio (gl)
• Georgian: პალადიუმი (ṗaladiumi)
• German: Palladium (de) n
• Greek: παλλάδιο (el) n (palládio)
• Hebrew: פלדיום‏‎ (he) (paládyum)
• Hindi: निचूषातु (nichooshaatu)
• Hungarian: palládium (hu)
• Icelandic: palladín (is)
• Interlingua: palladium
• Irish: pallaidiam (ga)
• Italian: palladio (it) m
• Japanese: パラジウム (ja) (parajiumu)

• Kashubian: pallôd
• Kazakh: палладий (palladïy)
• Korean: 팔라듐 (ko) (palladyum)
• Latvian: pallādijs
• Lithuanian: paladis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Palladium
• Macedonian: паладиум m (paládium)
• Malay: paladium
• Maltese: palladju
• Manx: pallaadjum
• Mongolian: паллади (palladi)
• Norwegian: palladium
• Polish: pallad (pl) m
• Portuguese: paládio (pt) m
• Romanian: paladiu (ro) n
• Russian: палла́дий (ru) m (palládij)
• Scottish Gaelic: pallaidiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паладиjум m, паладиj m

  Roman: paladijum m, paladij (sh) m

• Slovak: paládium
• Slovene: paladij (sl)
• Spanish: paladio (es) m
• Swedish: palladium (sv) n
• Tagalog: paladyo
• Tajik: palladi' (palladi')
• Tamil: வெண்ணிரும்பு (veṇṇirumpu)
• Thai: แพลเลเดียม (pɛɛl-lee-dîiam)
• Turkish: palladyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: паладiй m (paládij)
• Uzbek: палладий (uz) (palladiy)
• Vietnamese: palađi
• Welsh: paladiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: palladium

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AfrikaansEdit

Chemical element
Pd	Previous: rodium (Rh)
	Next: silwer (Ag)

NounEdit

palladium (uncountable)

1. palladium

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

palladium

1. palladium

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DutchEdit

Chemical element
Pd	Previous: rhodium (Rh)
	Next: zilver (Ag)

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

palladium

1. palladium

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of palladium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		palladium	—
genitive		palladiumin	—
partitive		palladiumia	—
illative		palladiumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		palladium	—
accusative	nom.	palladium	—
	gen.	palladiumin
genitive		palladiumin	—
partitive		palladiumia	—
inessive		palladiumissa	—
elative		palladiumista	—
illative		palladiumiin	—
adessive		palladiumilla	—
ablative		palladiumilta	—
allative		palladiumille	—
essive		palladiumina	—
translative		palladiumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		palladiumitta	—
comitative		—	—

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.djɔm/

NounEdit

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

Further readingEdit

• “palladium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [palˈla.di.ũ]

NounEdit

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension

1. palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	palladium	palladia
genitive	palladiī	palladiōrum
dative	palladiō	palladiīs
accusative	palladium	palladia
ablative	palladiō	palladiīs
vocative	palladium	palladia

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LimburgishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

NounEdit

palladium n

1. (uncountable) palladium
2. a part of palladium

InflectionEdit

Declension of palladium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	palladiumum	palladiuma	palladiumeke	palladiumekes
Genitive	palladiumums	palladiuma	palladiumekes	palladiumekes
Locative	palladiumeës	palladiumeëser	palladiumeëske	palladiumeëskes
Dative¹	palladiumumme	—	palladiumeke	—
Accusative¹	palladiumum	—	palladiumeke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/

NounEdit

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

DeclensionEdit

Declension of palladium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	palladium	palladiumet
genitive	palladiums	palladiumets