indium

indium

See also: Indium

English

Chemical element
In
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Etymology

Coined as a New Latin term from German Indigo (“indigo”), based on the color of its spectral lines.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭnʹdēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɪndi.əm/

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• Hyphenation: in‧di‧um

Noun

indium (usually uncountable, plural indiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol In) with an atomic number of 49: a soft silvery-white metal.
2. A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• copper indium gallium selenide
• indic
• indinic
• indium ammonium alum
• indium antimonide
• indium arsenide
• indium bromide
• indium chloride
• indium dichloride
• indium gallium nitride
• indium hydroxide
• indium iodide
• indium monochloride
• indium nitride
• indium oxide
• indium phosphide
• indium salt
• indium tin oxide
• indium trichloride

 

Related terms

• indigane
• indigo

Translations

metallic chemical element

Afrikaans: indium (af) Albanian: indium ? Arabic: إِنْدِيُوم‎ m (ʾindiyum) Armenian: ինդիում (indium) Asturian: indiu (ast) m Basque: indioa Belarusian: і́ндый m (índyj) Breton: indiom ? Bulgarian: и́ндий m (índij) Catalan: indi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 銦／铟 (zh) (yīn) Cornish: eyndyum ? Czech: indium (cs) n Danish: indium (da) n Dutch: indium (nl) n Esperanto: indio (eo) Estonian: indium (et) Faroese: indium n Finnish: indium (fi) French: indium (fr) m Friulian: indi ? Galician: indio (gl) m Georgian: ინდიუმი (indiumi) German: Indium (de) n Greek: ίνδιο (el) n (índio) Hebrew: אינדיום‎ (he) m (índiyum) Hindi: नैलातु ? (nailātu) Hungarian: indium (hu) Icelandic: indín (is) n Interlingua: indium Irish: indiam (ga) m Italian: indio (it) m Japanese: インジウム (ja) (injiumu) Kashubian: jind ? Kazakh: индий (kk) (indii) Khmer: អាំងដ្យូម (ʼangdyoum) Korean: 인듐 (ko) (indyum) Latvian: indijs m Limburgish: indium n Lingala: indu class 9a/10a Lithuanian: indis (lt) m Luxembourgish: Indium ? Macedonian: индиум m (indium) Malay: indium Maltese: indju ? Manx: indjum ? Mongolian: инди (mn) (indi) Norwegian: indium (no) n Occitan: indi (oc) m Polish: ind (pl) m Portuguese: índio (pt) m Romanian: indiu (ro) n Russian: и́ндий (ru) m (índij) Scottish Gaelic: indium m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: и̑ндӣј m, индиjум m Roman: ȋndīj (sh) m, indijum m Slovak: indium (sk) n Slovene: índij (sl) m Spanish: indio (es) m Swedish: indium (sv) n Tajik: индий (indiy) Tamil: இந்தியம் (ta) (intiyam) Thai: อินเดียม (in-dîiam) Turkish: indiyum (tr) Ukrainian: і́ндій m (índij) Uzbek: индий (uz) (indiy), indiy (uz) Vietnamese: indi Volapük: lindin (vo) Welsh: indiwm (cy) m West Frisian: indium ?

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
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Noun

indium (uncountable)

1. indium

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Danish

Noun

indium n (singular definite indiummet, not used in plural form)

1. indium

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Dutch

Chemical element
In
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndijʏm/

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Noun

indium n (uncountable)

1. indium

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Estonian

Chemical element
In
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Next: tina (Sn)

Etymology

German Indium.

Noun

indium (genitive indiumi, partitive indiumi or indiumit)

1. indium

Declension

Inflection of indium (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	indium	indiumid
accusative	indiumi	indiumid
genitive	indiumi	indiumide
partitive	indiumi	indiume indiumisid
illative	indiumi indiumisse	indiumidesse indiumesse
inessive	indiumis	indiumides indiumes
elative	indiumist	indiumidest indiumest
allative	indiumile	indiumidele indiumele
adessive	indiumil	indiumidel indiumel
ablative	indiumilt	indiumidelt indiumelt
translative	indiumiks	indiumideks indiumeks
terminative	indiumini	indiumideni
essive	indiumina	indiumidena
abessive	indiumita	indiumideta
comitative	indiumiga	indiumidega

Inflection of indium (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	indium	—
accusative	indiumi	—
genitive	indiumi	—
partitive	indiumit	—
illative	indiumisse	—
inessive	indiumis	—
elative	indiumist	—
allative	indiumile	—
adessive	indiumil	—
ablative	indiumilt	—
translative	indiumiks	—
terminative	indiumini	—
essive	indiumina	—
abessive	indiumita	—
comitative	indiumiga	—

Further reading

• indium in Sõnaveeb

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English indium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindium/, [ˈindium]
• Rhymes: -indium
• Syllabification^(key): in‧di‧um

Noun

indium

1. indium

Declension

Inflection of indium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		indium	indiumit
genitive		indiumin	indiumien
partitive		indiumia	indiumeja
illative		indiumiin	indiumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		indium	indiumit
accusative	nom.	indium	indiumit
	gen.	indiumin
genitive		indiumin	indiumien
partitive		indiumia	indiumeja
inessive		indiumissa	indiumeissa
elative		indiumista	indiumeista
illative		indiumiin	indiumeihin
adessive		indiumilla	indiumeilla
ablative		indiumilta	indiumeilta
allative		indiumille	indiumeille
essive		indiumina	indiumeina
translative		indiumiksi	indiumeiksi
instructive		—	indiumein
abessive		indiumitta	indiumeitta
comitative		—	indiumeineen

Possessive forms of indium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	indiumini	indiumimme
2nd person	indiumisi	indiuminne
3rd person	indiuminsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.djɔm/

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Noun

indium m (uncountable)

1. indium

Descendants

• Lingala: indu

Further reading

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

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Hungarian

Chemical element
In
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Next: ón (Sn)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈindijum]
• Hyphenation: in‧di‧um
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

indium (usually uncountable, plural indiumok)

1. indium (chemical element)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	indium	indiumok
accusative	indiumot	indiumokat
dative	indiumnak	indiumoknak
instrumental	indiummal	indiumokkal
causal-final	indiumért	indiumokért
translative	indiummá	indiumokká
terminative	indiumig	indiumokig
essive-formal	indiumként	indiumokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	indiumban	indiumokban
superessive	indiumon	indiumokon
adessive	indiumnál	indiumoknál
illative	indiumba	indiumokba
sublative	indiumra	indiumokra
allative	indiumhoz	indiumokhoz
elative	indiumból	indiumokból
delative	indiumról	indiumokról
ablative	indiumtól	indiumoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	indiumé	indiumoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	indiuméi	indiumokéi

Possessive forms of indium
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	indiumom	indiumaim
2nd person sing.	indiumod	indiumaid
3rd person sing.	indiuma	indiumai
1st person plural	indiumunk	indiumaink
2nd person plural	indiumotok	indiumaitok
3rd person plural	indiumuk	indiumaik

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Latin

Chemical element
In
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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.di.um/, [ˈɪn̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.di.um/, [ˈin̪d̪ium]

Noun

indium n (genitive indiī); second declension

1. indium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	indium	india
Genitive	indiī	indiōrum
Dative	indiō	indiīs
Accusative	indium	india
Ablative	indiō	indiīs
Vocative	indium	india

References

• indium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪ˦nɖɔ˧m]

Noun

indium n

1. (uncountable) indium
2. A part of indium

Inflection

Declension of indium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	indium	india	indieke	indiekes
Genitive	indiums	india	indiekes	indiekes
Locative	indieës	indieëser	indieëske	indieëskes
Dative¹	indiumme	—	indieke	—
Accusative¹	indium	—	indieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Chemical element
In
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Etymology

From English indium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [indiom], [indiəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

indium

1. indium (chemical element)

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Romanian

Noun

indium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of indiu

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Slovak

Chemical element
In
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Next: cín (Sn)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈindium/

Noun

indium n (genitive singular india, declension pattern of mesto)

1. indium (element)

Declension

Declension of indium

	singulare tantum
nominative	indium
genitive	india
dative	indiu
accusative	indium
locative	indiu
instrumental	indiom

References

• indium in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swedish

Chemical element
In
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Noun

indium n (uncountable)

1. indium

Declension

Declension of indium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	indium	indiumet	—	—
Genitive	indiums	indiumets	—	—

Declension of indium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	indium	indiet	—	—
Genitive	indiums	indiets	—	—