palladium

See also: Palladium and palládium

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /pəˈleɪdiəm/

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.
   • 1765, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book I (Of the Rights of Persons), Oxford: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:

     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[.]

   • 1967 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), translated by Walter Kaufman in 1967

     The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.

Translations

a safeguard

• Bulgarian: щит (bg) m (štit), защита (bg) f (zaštita)
• German: Schutz (de) m
• Russian: палла́диум (ru) m (palládium)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̀ла̄диј m

  Roman: pàlādij (sh) m

• Spanish: paladión (es) f

Etymology 2

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)

Noun

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• dioxide of palladium
• pallad-
• palladic
• palladide
• palladiferous
• palladio-
• palladious, palladous
• palladium chloride
• palladium cyanide
• palladium dichloride
• palladium dinitrate
• palladium hydride
• palladiumise, palladiumize
• palladium nitrate
• protoxide of palladium

 

Related terms

• Pallas

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: palladium (af)
• Albanian: palad m
• Arabic: بَلَادْيُوم‎ m (balādiyum)
• Armenian: պալադիում (hy) (paladium)
• Asturian: paladiu m
• Azerbaijani: palladium
• Basque: paladioa
• Belarusian: пала́дый m (paládyj)
• Breton: palladiom ?
• Bulgarian: пала́дий m (paládij)
• Burmese: ပယ်လေဒီယမ် (pailediyam)
• Catalan: pal·ladi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈀, 钯 (paa⁴)

  Mandarin: 鈀 (zh), 钯 (zh) (bǎ)

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

• Khmer: ប៉ាឡាដ្យូម (paalaatyuum)
• Korean: 팔라듐 (ko) (palladyum)
• Kyrgyz: палладий (ky) (palladiy)
• Latvian: pallādijs m
• Lithuanian: paladis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Palladium ?
• Macedonian: паладиум m (paladium)
• Malay: paladium
• Maltese: palladju m
• Manx: pallaadjum ?
• Mongolian: паллади (palladi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palladium n

  Nynorsk: palladium (nn) n

• Occitan: palladi m
• Persian: پالادیم‎ (pâlâdyom)
• Polish: pallad (pl) m
• Portuguese: paládio (pt) m
• Romanian: paladiu (ro) n
• Russian: палла́дий (ru) m (palládij)
• Scottish Gaelic: paladium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паладиjум m, па̀ла̄диј m

  Roman: paladijum m, pàlādij (sh) m

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

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Afrikaans

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

Noun

palladium (uncountable)

1. palladium

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Danish

Noun

palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)

1. palladium

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Dutch

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑˈlaː.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: pal‧la‧di‧um

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English palladium.

Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium (element)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).

Noun

palladium n (plural palladia)

1. (archaic) palladium, safeguard (something that guarantees protection)
   • 1849, Petrus Hofstede de Groot, Is bezuiniging op het Onderwijs, voor al door opheffing eener Hoogeschool, aan te raden?, publ. by C. M. van Bolhuis Hoitsema, page 33.

     Het is toch algemeen aangenomen , dat Universiteiten de palladia der geleerdheid en beschaving zijn ; […]

     It is after all commonly assumed that universities are the palladia of learnedness and civilisation; […]

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Finnish

Noun

palladium

1. palladium

Declension

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		—	—

Possessive forms of palladium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	palladiumini	palladiumimme
2nd person	palladiumisi	palladiuminne
3rd person	palladiuminsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.djɔm/

Noun

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

Noun

palladium n

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

Inflection

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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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

References

• “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

Etymology 2

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)

1. palladium, safeguard

References

• “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/

Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

Declension

Declension of palladium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	palladium	palladiumet	—	—
Genitive	palladiums	palladiumets	—	—