lutetium

See also: Lutetium and lutétium

English

Chemical element
Lu
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Lutetium cube and dendrites.

Alternative forms

lutecium (no longer used after 1949, when lutetium was made the official spelling)

Etymology

From Latin Lutetia (“Paris, the capital of France”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

enPR: lūtē'shēəm, IPA^(key): /ljuːˈtiːʃiəm/
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Noun

lutetium (uncountable)

A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.

Synonyms

cassiopeium (name proposed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, one of the discoverers of lutetium, but rejected)

Derived terms

lutetium oxide

Related terms

cassiopeium
Lutetian

Translations

chemical element with atomic number of 71

Afrikaans: lutesium (af)
Albanian: lutec
Arabic: لُوتِيتْيُوم‎ m (lutityum)
Armenian: լուտեցիում (lutecʿium)
Asturian: luteciu (ast) m
Basque: lutezioa
Belarusian: лютэ́цый m (ljutécyj)
Breton: lutesiom (br)
Bulgarian: люте́ций m (ljutécij)
Catalan: luteci (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 镥 (zh), 鎦／镏 (zh) (lǔ)
Cornish: lutetyum
Czech: lutecium (cs)
Danish: lutetium (da)
Dutch: lutetium (nl) n
Esperanto: lutecio (eo)
Estonian: luteetsium (et)
Faroese: lutetium
Finnish: lutetium (fi)
French: lutécium (fr) m
Friulian: lutezi
Galician: lutecio (gl) m
Georgian: ლუტეციუმი (luṭeciumi)
German: Lutetium (de) n, Cassiopeium n (obsolete)
Greek: λουτέτσιο n (loutétsio)
Hebrew: לוטטיום‎ (he) (lutetyum)
Hindi: निर्वर्णला (nirvarṇalā)
Hungarian: lutécium (hu)
Icelandic: lútesín
Irish: lúitéitiam
Italian: lutezio (it) m
Japanese: ルテチウム (ja) (rutechiumu), 鎦 (ja)
Kashubian: lutet
Khmer: លុយតេចូម (luyteecoum)
Korean: 루테튬 (ko) (rutetyum)
Latin: lutetium (la)
Latvian: lutēcijs m
Lithuanian: lutecis (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Lutetium
Macedonian: лутециум m (lutecium)
Malay: lutetium
Maltese: lutizjum
Manx: lootaiçhum
Mongolian: лйутеци (ljuteci)
Norwegian: lutetium
Polish: lutet (pl) m
Portuguese: lutécio (pt) m
Romanian: lutețiu (ro) n
Russian: люте́ций (ru) m (ljutécij)
Scottish Gaelic: luitèitiam
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лутециj m, лутециjум m
Roman: lutecij (sh) m, lutecijum m
Slovak: lutecium
Slovene: lutecij (sl)
Spanish: lutecio (es) m
Swedish: lutetium (sv)
Tajik: lyuteci'
Tamil: மிளிரியம் (miḷiriyam)
Thai: ลูทีเชียม (luu-tii-chîiam)
Turkish: lütesyum (tr)
Ukrainian: люте́цій m (ljutécij)
Uzbek: lyutetsiy (uz)
Vietnamese: Luteti
Volapük: lutetin (vo)
Welsh: lwtetiwm (cy)
West Frisian: lutetium

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Lu
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Noun

lutetium (uncountable)

Nonstandard form of lutesium.

Danish

Noun

lutetium

lutetium

Dutch

Chemical element
Lu
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Pronunciation

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Noun

lutetium n (uncountable)

lutetium

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English lutetium).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlutetium/, [ˈlut̪e̞ˌt̪ium]
Rhymes: -ium
Syllabification^(key): lu‧te‧ti‧um

Noun

lutetium

lutetium

Declension

Inflection of lutetium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		lutetium	lutetiumit
genitive		lutetiumin	lutetiumien
partitive		lutetiumia	lutetiumeja
illative		lutetiumiin	lutetiumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		lutetium	lutetiumit
accusative	nom.	lutetium	lutetiumit
accusative	gen.	lutetiumin	lutetiumit
genitive		lutetiumin	lutetiumien
partitive		lutetiumia	lutetiumeja
inessive		lutetiumissa	lutetiumeissa
elative		lutetiumista	lutetiumeista
illative		lutetiumiin	lutetiumeihin
adessive		lutetiumilla	lutetiumeilla
ablative		lutetiumilta	lutetiumeilta
allative		lutetiumille	lutetiumeille
essive		lutetiumina	lutetiumeina
translative		lutetiumiksi	lutetiumeiksi
instructive		—	lutetiumein
abessive		lutetiumitta	lutetiumeitta
comitative		—	lutetiumeineen

Possessive forms of lutetium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	lutetiumini	lutetiumimme
2nd person	lutetiumisi	lutetiuminne
3rd person	lutetiuminsa

Anagrams

lumettui

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈte.ti.um/, [ɫ̪ʊˈt̪ɛt̪iʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈtet.t͡si.um/, [luˈt̪ɛt̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

lutetium n (genitive lutetiī); second declension

lutetium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lutetium	lutetia
Genitive	lutetiī	lutetiōrum
Dative	lutetiō	lutetiīs
Accusative	lutetium	lutetia
Ablative	lutetiō	lutetiīs
Vocative	lutetium	lutetia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ly˧ˈteː˨ʃɔ˧m]

Noun

lutetium n

(uncountable) lutetium
a part of lutetium

Inflection

Declension of lutetium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	lutetium	lutetia	lutetieke	lutetiekes
Genitive	lutetiums	lutetia	lutetiekes	lutetiekes
Locative	lutetieës	lutetieëser	lutetieëske	lutetieëskes
Dative¹	lutetiumme	—	lutetieke	—
Accusative¹	lutetium	—	lutetieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

Malay

Chemical element
Lu
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Etymology

From English lutetium, from Latin Lutetia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [lutetiom], [lutetiəm], [lutiʃəm]
Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

lutetium

lutetium