palladium
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəˈleɪdiəm/
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)
- 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[.]
- Blackstone
Translations
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)
- A metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
Derived terms
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
Translations
chemical element
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Afrikaans
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Pd | Previous: rodium (Rh) |
| Next: silwer (Ag) | |
Noun
palladium (uncountable)
Danish
Noun
palladium
- palladium
Dutch
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Pd | Previous: rhodium (Rh) |
| Next: zilver (Ag) | |
Pronunciation
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Audio (file)
Noun
palladium n (uncountable)
Finnish
Noun
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 | — | — | |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.la.djɔm/
Noun
palladium m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “palladium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [palˈla.di.ũ]
Noun
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
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | palladium | palladia |
| genitive | palladiī | palladiōrum |
| dative | palladiō | palladiīs |
| accusative | palladium | palladia |
| ablative | palladiō | palladiīs |
| vocative | palladium | palladia |
Limburgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]
Noun
palladium n
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. | ||||
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/
Noun
palladium n (uncountable)
Declension
| Declension of palladium | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | palladium | palladiumet | — | — |
| Genitive | palladiums | palladiumets | — | — |
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