ferrous

ferrous

English

Etymology

From Latin ferrum (“iron”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fĕr'əs, IPA^(key): /ˈfɛɹəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹəs

Adjective

ferrous (comparative more ferrous, superlative most ferrous)

1. Of or containing iron.
2. (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.

Antonyms

• nonferrous

Derived terms

• carbon-ferrous
• ferrous chloride
• ferrous ferricyanide
• ferrous fumarate
• ferrous oxide
• ferrous phosphate
• ferrous sulfate, ferrous sulphate
• ferrous sulfide, ferrous sulphide
• non-ferrous

 

Translations

of or containing iron

Arabic: حَدِيدِيّ‎ m (ḥadīdiyy) Armenian: երկաթյա (hy) (erkatʿya), երկաթե (hy) (erkatʿe) Bashkir: тимер (timer) Breton: houarn (br), houarnek (br) Bulgarian: желе́зен (bg) m (želézen) Catalan: ferrós Chinese: Mandarin: 鐵製的／铁制的 Danish: jern- Dutch: ijzeren (nl) Faroese: jarn- Finnish: rautainen (fi) French: ferreux (fr) m German: eisern (de) Greek: σιδερένιος (el) m (siderénios) Ido: fera (io) Interlingua: ferree Irish: iarnaí, iarnda, iarnúil Italian: ferreo (it), ferroso (it), ferrico (it) Japanese: 鉄 (ja) (てつ, tetsu) Latin: ferreus Latvian: dzelzs- Lithuanian: geležinis Macedonian: железен m (železen) Malay: ferus Maori: rino Norwegian: jern-, jernholdig Polish: żelazny (pl) m Portuguese: férreo (pt), ferroso Russian: желе́зный (ru) (želéznyj) Serbo-Croatian: željezan (sh), železan (sh) Slovak: železný (sk) Southern Altai: темирлӱ (temirlü) Spanish: férreo (es) Swedish: järn- Ukrainian: залі́зний (zalíznyj) Vilamovian: ȧjzera

chemistry

Catalan: ferrós Czech: železnatý Irish: iarnúil Polish: żelazawy Portuguese: ferroso Spanish: ferroso (es)

See also

• ferric
• ferryl

Anagrams

• for sure, furores