krypton

krypton

See also: Krypton and kryptón

English

Chemical element
Kr
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Next: rubidium (Rb)

Etymology

Neuter form of Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: krĭp'tŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪptɒn/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

krypton (countable and uncountable, plural kryptons)

1. The chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
2. (countable) An atom of this element.

Derived terms

• krypton difluoride
• krypton fluoride

Related terms

• kryptonate

Translations

a chemical element

Afrikaans: kripton (af) Albanian: kripton Arabic: كْرِبْتُون‎ m (kribtōn) Armenian: կրիպտոն (hy) (kripton) Asturian: criptón (ast) m Basque: kriptona Belarusian: крыпто́н m (kryptón) Breton: kripton Bulgarian: крипто́н m (kriptón) Catalan: criptó (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 氪 (zh) (kè) Cornish: crypton Czech: krypton (cs) Danish: krypton (da) n Dutch: krypton (nl) n Esperanto: kriptono (eo) Estonian: krüptoon (et) Faroese: krypton n Finnish: krypton (fi) French: krypton (fr) m Friulian: criton Galician: cripton (gl) Georgian: კრიპტონი (ḳriṗṭoni) German: Krypton (de) n Greek: κρυπτό (el) n (kryptó) Hebrew: קריפטון‎ (he) (kriptón) Hindi: लीनाति (līnāti) Hungarian: kripton (hu) Icelandic: krypton (is) Interlingua: krypton Irish: crioptón (ga) Italian: cripto (it) m, kripto m, krypto m Japanese: クリプトン (ja) (kuriputon) Kashubian: kriptón Kazakh: криптон (kripton) Khmer: គ្រីបតុង (kriiptong) Korean: 크립톤 (ko) (keuripton) Latin: krypton (la) Latvian: kriptons m Lithuanian: kriptonas (lt) Luxembourgish: Krypton Macedonian: крипто́н m (kriptón) Malay: kripton Maltese: kriptu Manx: krypton Mongolian: криптон (kripton) Norwegian: krypton (no) Occitan: cripton m Polish: krypton (pl) m Portuguese: crípton (pt) m, criptônio (pt) m Romanian: kripton (ro) n Russian: крипто́н (ru) m (kriptón) Sanskrit: लीनाति (līnāti) Scottish Gaelic: criopton Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: криптон m Roman: kripton (sh) Slovak: kryptón (sk) Slovene: kripton (sl) Spanish: criptón (es) m Swedish: krypton (sv) n Tagalog: kripton Tajik: kripton (kripton) Tamil: மறைவியம் (maṟaiviyam) Telugu: క్రిప్టాన్ (te) (kripṭān) Thai: คริปทอน (kríp-tɔ̂n) Turkish: kripton (tr) Ukrainian: крипто́н m (kryptón) Uzbek: kripton (uz), криптон (uz) (kripton) Vietnamese: kripton Volapük: kriptin (vo) Welsh: crypton (cy) West Frisian: krypton Yiddish: קריפּטאָן‎ m (kripton)

See also

• kryptonite

References

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

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Czech

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: brom (Br)
Next: rubidium (Rb)

Noun

krypton m inan

1. krypton

Declension

Declension of krypton

	singular	plural
nominative	krypton	kryptony
genitive	kryptonu	kryptonů
dative	kryptonu	kryptonům
accusative	krypton	kryptony
vocative	kryptone	kryptony
locative	kryptonu	kryptonech
instrumental	kryptonem	kryptony

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Danish

Noun

krypton

1. krypton

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Dutch

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: broom (Br)
Next: rubidium (Rb)

Etymology

Borrowed from English krypton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɪp.tɔn/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: kryp‧ton

Noun

krypton n (uncountable)

1. krypton

Derived terms

• kryptoniet

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English krypton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrypton/, [ˈkrypt̪o̞n]
• Rhymes: -ypton
• Syllabification^(key): kryp‧ton

Noun

krypton

1. krypton

Declension

Inflection of krypton (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		krypton	kryptonit
genitive		kryptonin	kryptonien kryptoneiden kryptoneitten
partitive		kryptonia	kryptoneita kryptoneja
illative		kryptoniin	kryptoneihin
		singular	plural
nominative		krypton	kryptonit
accusative	nom.	krypton	kryptonit
	gen.	kryptonin
genitive		kryptonin	kryptonien kryptoneiden kryptoneitten
partitive		kryptonia	kryptoneita kryptoneja
inessive		kryptonissa	kryptoneissa
elative		kryptonista	kryptoneista
illative		kryptoniin	kryptoneihin
adessive		kryptonilla	kryptoneilla
ablative		kryptonilta	kryptoneilta
allative		kryptonille	kryptoneille
essive		kryptonina	kryptoneina
translative		kryptoniksi	kryptoneiksi
instructive		—	kryptonein
abessive		kryptonitta	kryptoneitta
comitative		—	kryptoneineen

Possessive forms of krypton (type paperi)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	kryptonini	kryptonimme
2nd person	kryptonisi	kryptoninne
3rd person	kryptoninsa

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁip.tɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

krypton m (uncountable)

1. krypton

Further reading

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

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Icelandic

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: bróm (Br)
Next: rúbidín (Rb)

Noun

krypton n (genitive singular kryptons, no plural)

1. krypton (chemical element)

Declension

declension of krypton

n-s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	krypton	kryptonið
accusative	krypton	kryptonið
dative	kryptoni	kryptoninu
genitive	kryptons	kryptonsins

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Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian krypton.

Noun

krypton

1. krypton

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	krypton
Genitive	kryptona
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	krypton	kryptonat
Accusative	kryptona	kryptoniid
Genitive	kryptona	kryptoniid
Illative	kryptonii	kryptoniidda
Locative	kryptonis	kryptoniin
Comitative	kryptoniin	kryptoniiguin
Essive	kryptonin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person kryptonan kryptoneamẹ kryptoneamẹt 2nd person kryptonat kryptoneattẹ kryptoneattẹt 3rd person kryptonis kryptoneaskkạ kryptoneasẹt

Further reading

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

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrɨp.tɔn/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɨptɔn
• Syllabification: kryp‧ton

Noun

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: brom (Br)
Next: rubid (Rb)

krypton m inan

1. krypton (chemical element)

Declension

Declension of krypton

	singular
nominative	krypton
genitive	kryptonu
dative	kryptonowi
accusative	krypton
instrumental	kryptonem
locative	kryptonie
vocative	kryptonie

Further reading

• krypton in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• krypton in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Chemical element
Kr
Previous: brom (Br)
Next: rubidium (Rb)

Noun

krypton n (uncountable)

1. krypton

Declension

Declension of krypton
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	krypton	kryptonet	—	—
Genitive	kryptons	kryptonets	—	—