yttrium

See also: Yttrium

English

Chemical element
Y
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Next: zirconium (Zr)

Yttrium dendrites and cube.

Etymology

From Ytterby (literally “outer village”), a town in Sweden, + -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭt'rēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.tɹi.əm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

yttrium (usually uncountable, plural yttriums)

1. A silvery metallic chemical element (symbol Y) with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals.

Derived terms

• diyttrium trioxide
• gadolinium yttrium garnet
• yttric
• yttriferous
• yttrious
• yttrite
• yttrium aluminium garnet, yttrium aluminum garnet
• yttrium anhydrous chloride
• yttrium barium copper oxide
• yttrium fluoride
• yttrium lithium fluoride
• yttrium oxide
• yttrium vanadate
• yttro-

 

Related terms

• erbium
• terbium
• YBCO
• ytter
• ytterbite
• ytterbium
• Ytterby
• ytterite
• yttria

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: yttrium (af)
• Albanian: itrium ?
• Arabic: يِتْرِيُوم‎ m (yitriyum)
• Armenian: իտրիում (itrium)
• Asturian: itriu m
• Basque: itrioa
• Belarusian: і́трый m (ítryj)
• Breton: itriom ?
• Bulgarian: и́трий m (ítrij)
• Catalan: itri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釔 (zh) (yǐ)

• Cornish: ytryum ?
• Czech: yttrium (cs) n
• Danish: yttrium (da) n
• Dutch: yttrium (nl) n
• Esperanto: itrio (eo)
• Estonian: ütrium (et)
• Faroese: yttrium n
• Finnish: yttrium (fi)
• French: yttrium (fr) m
• Friulian: itri ?
• Galician: itrio (gl) m
• Georgian: იტრიუმი (iṭriumi)
• German: Yttrium (de) n
• Greek: ύττριο (el) n (ýttrio)
• Hebrew: איטריום‎ (he) m (ítriyum)
• Hindi: भृशला ? (bhŕślā)
• Hungarian: ittrium (hu)
• Icelandic: yttrín (is) ?
• Ido: yitro
• Interlingua: yttrium
• Irish: itriam (ga) m
• Italian: ittrio (it) m
• Japanese: イットリウム (ja) (ittoriumu)
• Kashubian: éter ?

• Kazakh: иттрий (ïttrïy)
• Khmer: អ៊ីទ្រីយ៉ូម (ʼiitriiyoum)
• Korean: 이트륨 (ko) (iteuryum)
• Latin: yttrium (la) n
• Latvian: itrijs m
• Limburgish: itrium n
• Lithuanian: itris (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Yttrium ?
• Macedonian: итриум m (itrium)
• Malay: itrium
• Maltese: ittriju ?
• Manx: yttrium ?
• Mongolian: иттри (ittri)
• Norwegian: yttrium ?
• Occitan: itri m
• Polish: itr (pl) m
• Portuguese: ítrio (pt) m
• Romanian: ytriu (ro) n
• Russian: и́ттрий (ru) m (íttrij)
• Scottish Gaelic: itrium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: итриjум ?, и̑трӣј m

  Roman: itrijum ?, ȋtrīj (sh) m

• Slovak: ytrium (sk) n
• Slovene: ítrij (sl) m
• Spanish: itrio (es) m
• Swedish: yttrium (sv) n
• Tagalog: itriyo
• Tajik: иттрий (ittriy)
• Tamil: திகழியம் (tikaḻiyam)
• Thai: อิตเทรียม (ìt-trîiam)
• Turkish: itriyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: і́трій m (ítrij)
• Uzbek: ittriy (uz)

  Cyrillic: иттрий (ittriy)

• Vietnamese: ytri
• Volapük: lütrin (vo)
• Welsh: ytriwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: yttrium ?

See also

• bastnasite

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Y
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Next: sirkonium (Zr)

Noun

yttrium (uncountable)

1. yttrium

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Czech

Chemical element
Y
Previous: stroncium (Sr)
Next: zirkonium (Zr)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪtrɪum]
• Hyphenation: yt‧t‧rium

Noun

yttrium n

1. yttrium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39)

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	yttrium	yttria
genitive	yttria	yttrií
dative	yttriu	yttriím
accusative	yttrium	yttria
vocative	yttrium	yttria
locative	yttriu	yttriích
instrumental	yttriem	yttrii

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Danish

Noun

yttrium n (singular definite yttriummet, not used in plural form)

1. yttrium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Y
Previous: strontium (Sr)
Next: zirkonium (Zr)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin yttrium or Swedish yttrium. Named after Ytterby in Sweden. The first mention is from the late eighteenth century, which in fact referred to gadolinite, a mineral that was at the time misidentified as an element.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.ʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: yt‧tri‧um

Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium [from mid 19th c.]

Related terms

• erbium
• terbium
• ytterbium

 

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈytːrium/, [ˈyt̪ːrium]
• Rhymes: -ytːrium
• Syllabification: ytt‧ri‧um

Noun

yttrium

1. yttrium

Declension

Inflection of yttrium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		yttrium	—
genitive		yttriumin	—
partitive		yttriumia	—
illative		yttriumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		yttrium	—
accusative	nom.	yttrium	—
	gen.	yttriumin
genitive		yttriumin	—
partitive		yttriumia	—
inessive		yttriumissa	—
elative		yttriumista	—
illative		yttriumiin	—
adessive		yttriumilla	—
ablative		yttriumilta	—
allative		yttriumille	—
essive		yttriumina	—
translative		yttriumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		yttriumitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of yttrium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	yttriumini	yttriumimme
2nd person	yttriumisi	yttriuminne
3rd person	yttriuminsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.tʁi.jɔm/

Noun

yttrium m (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Further reading

• “yttrium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈyt.tri.um/, [ˈʏt̪ːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈit.tri.um/, [ˈit̪ːrium]

Noun

yttrium n (genitive yttriī); second declension

1. yttrium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	yttrium	yttria
Genitive	yttriī	yttriōrum
Dative	yttriō	yttriīs
Accusative	yttrium	yttria
Ablative	yttriō	yttriīs
Vocative	yttrium	yttria

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏtrɪɵm/

Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Declension

Declension of yttrium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	yttrium	yttriumet	—	—
Genitive	yttriums	yttriumets	—	—

Declension of yttrium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	yttrium	yttriet	—	—
Genitive	yttriums	yttriets	—	—