palladium
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
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)
- A safeguard.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), 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.
TranslationsEdit
a safeguard
Etymology 2Edit
The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.
| Chemical element | |
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| Pd | |
| Previous: rhodium (Rh) | |
| Next: silver (Ag) | |
NounEdit
palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
chemical element
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AfrikaansEdit
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Pd | |
| Previous: rodium (Rh) | |
| Next: silwer (Ag) | |
NounEdit
palladium (uncountable)
DanishEdit
NounEdit
palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)
DutchEdit
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Pd | |
| Previous: rhodium (Rh) | |
| Next: zilver (Ag) | |
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English palladium.
NounEdit
palladium n (uncountable)
- palladium (element)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).
NounEdit
palladium n (plural palladia)
- (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; […]
- 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.
FinnishEdit
NounEdit
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 | — | — | |
| Possessive forms of palladium (type risti) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | palladiumini | palladiumimme |
| 2nd person | palladiumisi | palladiuminne |
| 3rd person | palladiuminsa | |
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
palladium m (uncountable)
Further readingEdit
- “palladium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈlʲäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈläːd̪ium]
NounEdit
palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension
- palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities
DeclensionEdit
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 |
LimburgishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
palladium n
- (uncountable) palladium
- 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. | ||||
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.
NounEdit
palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)
ReferencesEdit
- “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.
NounEdit
palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)
ReferencesEdit
- “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
palladium n (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of palladium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | palladium | palladiumet | — | — |
| Genitive | palladiums | palladiumets | — | — |