xenon

See also: Xenon, xénon, xenón, and xênon

English

Chemical element
Xe
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈziːnɒn/
• (US) enPR: zē'nŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈzinɑn/; enPR: zē'nən, IPA^(key): /zinən/

• Audio (US)

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /zenɔn/; IPA^(key): /zɪinɔn/
• Rhymes: -iːnɒn
• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon (usually uncountable, plural xenons)

1. The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.

Derived terms

• perxenate
• xenon arc lamp
• xenon chloride
• xenon difluoride
• xenon flash lamp
• xenon fluoride
• xenon hexafluoride
• xenon hexafluoroplatinate
• xenon lamp
• xenon light
• xenon tetrafluoride
• xenon tetroxide
• xenon trioxide

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: xenon (af)
• Albanian: ksenon
• Arabic: إِكْسِينُون‎ m (ʾiksinōn)
• Armenian: քսենոն (hy) (kʿsenon)
• Asturian: xenón m
• Basque: xenona
• Belarusian: ксэнон m (ksenón)
• Breton: ksenon
• Bulgarian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Catalan: xenó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氙 (zh) (xiān)

• Cornish: xenon
• Crimean Tatar: ksenon
• Czech: xenon (cs) m
• Danish: xenon (da) c or n
• Dutch: xenon (nl) n
• Esperanto: ksenono (eo)
• Estonian: ksenoon (et)
• Faroese: xenon
• Finnish: ksenon (fi)
• French: xénon (fr) m
• Friulian: xenon
• Galician: xenon (gl) m
• Georgian: ქსენონი (ksenoni)
• German: Xenon (de) n
• Greek: ξένο (el) n (xéno)
• Hebrew: קסנון‎ (he) (ksinón)
• Hindi: कोटयाति (koṭyāti)
• Hungarian: xenon (hu)
• Icelandic: xenon (is) n
• Ido: xenio (io)
• Interlingua: xenon
• Irish: xeanón m
• Italian: xenon (it) m, xeno (it) m
• Japanese: キセノン (ja) (kisenon)
• Kashubian: ksenón
• Kazakh: ксенон (kk) (ksenon)

• Korean: 크세논 (ko) (keusenon), 제논 (jenon)
• Latin: xenon (la)
• Latvian: ksenons
• Lithuanian: ksenonas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Xenon
• Macedonian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Malay: xenon (ms)
• Maltese: żenon
• Manx: xenon
• Mongolian: ксенон (ksyönon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: xenon n

  Nynorsk: xenon (nn) n

• Occitan: xenon m
• Persian: زنون‎ (fa)
• Polish: ksenon (pl) m
• Portuguese: xenônio (pt) m (Brazil), xenónio (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: xenon (ro) n
• Russian: ксено́н (ru) m (ksenón)
• Scottish Gaelic: xeanon
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ксѐно̄н m

  Latin: ksènōn (sh) m

• Slovak: xenón (sk)
• Slovene: ksenon (sl)
• Spanish: xenón (es) m
• Swedish: xenon (sv) n
• Tajik: ksenon
• Tamil: செனன் (ceṉaṉ)
• Thai: ซีนอน (sii-nɔ̂n)
• Turkish: ksenon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Uzbek: ксенон (uz) (ksenon)
• Vietnamese: xenon (vi)
• Volapük: xenonin (vo)
• Welsh: xenon
• West Frisian: xenon

References

• Xenon on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Anagrams

• xenno-

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Xe
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Next: sesium (Cs)

Pronunciation

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Noun

xenon (uncountable)

1. xenon

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Czech

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: jod (I)
Next: cesium (Cs)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈksɛnon]
• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon m inan

1. xenon

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	xenon	xenony
genitive	xenonu	xenonů
dative	xenonu	xenonům
accusative	xenon	xenony
vocative	xenone	xenony
locative	xenonu	xenonech
instrumental	xenonem	xenony

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Danish

Noun

xenon c or n (definite singular xenonen or xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (element, chemical symbol Xe)

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Dutch

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: jodium (I)
Next: cesium (Cs)

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkseː.nɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon n (uncountable)

1. xenon

Derived terms

• xenongas

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Galician

Noun

xenon m (uncountable)

1. xenon

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Hungarian

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: jód (I)
Next: cézium (Cs)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈksɛnon]
• Hyphenation: xe‧non
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

xenon (usually uncountable, plural xenonok)

1. xenon (chemical element)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	xenon	xenonok
accusative	xenont	xenonokat
dative	xenonnak	xenonoknak
instrumental	xenonnal	xenonokkal
causal-final	xenonért	xenonokért
translative	xenonná	xenonokká
terminative	xenonig	xenonokig
essive-formal	xenonként	xenonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	xenonban	xenonokban
superessive	xenonon	xenonokon
adessive	xenonnál	xenonoknál
illative	xenonba	xenonokba
sublative	xenonra	xenonokra
allative	xenonhoz	xenonokhoz
elative	xenonból	xenonokból
delative	xenonról	xenonokról
ablative	xenontól	xenonoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	xenoné	xenonoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	xenonéi	xenonokéi

Possessive forms of xenon
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	xenonom	xenonjaim
2nd person sing.	xenonod	xenonjaid
3rd person sing.	xenonja	xenonjai
1st person plural	xenonunk	xenonjaink
2nd person plural	xenonotok	xenonjaitok
3rd person plural	xenonjuk	xenonjaik

Derived terms

• xenon villanólámpa

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Icelandic

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: joð (I)
Next: sesín (Cs)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Noun

xenon n (genitive singular xenons, no plural)

1. xenon (chemical element)

Declension

declension of xenon

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	xenon	xenonið
accusative	xenon	xenonið
dative	xenoni	xenoninu
genitive	xenons	xenonsins

Further reading

• “xenon” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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Latin

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: iodium (I)
Next: caesium (Cs)

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), which is the neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.non/, [ˈks̠ɛnɔn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkse.non/, [ˈksɛːnon]

Noun

xenon n (genitive xenī); second declension

1. xenon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	xenon	xena
Genitive	xenī	xenōrum
Dative	xenō	xenīs
Accusative	xenon	xena
Ablative	xenō	xenīs
Vocative	xenon	xena

References

• “xenon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• xenon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “xenon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “xenon”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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Malay

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: iodin (I)
Next: sesium (Cs)

Etymology

From English xenon, from Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zenɔn], [zinɔn]
• Rhymes: -nɔn, -ɔn

Noun

xenon

1. xenon (chemical element)

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Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian xenon.

Noun

xēnon

1. xenon

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	xēnon
Genitive	xēnona
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	xēnon	xēnonat
Accusative	xēnona	xēnoniid
Genitive	xēnona	xēnoniid
Illative	xēnonii	xēnoniidda
Locative	xēnonis	xēnoniin
Comitative	xēnoniin	xēnoniiguin
Essive	xēnonin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person xēnonan xēnoneamẹ xēnoneamẹt 2nd person xēnonat xēnoneattẹ xēnoneattẹt 3rd person xēnonis xēnoneaskkạ xēnoneasẹt

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

xenon n (definite singular xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (element, chemical symbol Xe)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

xenon n (definite singular xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (as above)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French xénon or German Xenon.

Noun

xenon n (uncountable)

1. xenon

Declension

declension of xenon (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) xenon	xenonul
genitive/dative	(unui) xenon	xenonului
vocative	xenonule

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Swedish

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: jod (I)
Next: cesium (Cs)

Noun

xenon n (singulare tantum)

1. xenon

Declension

Declension of xenon
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	xenon	xenonet	—	—
Genitive	xenons	xenonets	—	—

Derived terms

• xenonlampa

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Vietnamese

Chemical element
Xe
Previous: iot (I)
Next: xesi (Cs)

Etymology

From French xénon, from English xenon.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [se˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Phonetic: xê nông

Noun

xenon

1. xenon