magnesium

magnesium

See also: Magnesium and magnésium

English

Chemical element
Mg
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Etymology

From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈniːzi.əm/
• (US) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/; enPR: măgnē'zhəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
   • 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

     The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.

Magnesium sample

Derived terms

• calcium magnesium carbonate
• calcium magnesium silicate
• magnesic
• magnesium-24
• magnesium-25
• magnesium-26
• magnesium aluminate
• magnesium aluminium oxide, magnesium aluminum oxide
• magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate
• magnesium carbonate
• magnesium caseinate
• magnesium chlorate
• magnesium chloride
• magnesium chlorite
• magnesium citrate
• magnesium diboride
• magnesium fluoride
• magnesium gallate
• magnesium hydroxide
• magnesium lamp
• magnesium laureth sulfate, magnesium laureth sulphate
• magnesium light
• magnesium mica
• magnesium nitrate
• magnesium nitride
• magnesium oxide
• magnesium perchlorate
• magnesium peroxide
• magnesium ribbon
• magnesium silicate
• magnesium stearate
• magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulphate
• magnesium sulfide, magnesium sulphide
• magnesium wire
• manganoso-magnesium alum
• potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate

 

Related terms

• magnalium
• magnelium
• Magnesia
• magnesia
• magnesite
• magnox, Magnox
• mag wheel

 

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: magnesium (af) Albanian: magneziumi Arabic: مَغْنِسْيُوم‎ m (maḡnisyum) Armenian: մագնեզիում (hy) (magnezium) Asturian: magnesiu (ast) m Azerbaijani: maqnezium Basque: magnesioa Belarusian: магній m (mahnij) Bengali: ম্যাগনেসিয়াম (mêgnesiyam) Breton: magneziom m, magnesiom m Bulgarian: магне́зий (bg) m (magnézij) Catalan: magnesi (ca) m Cebuano: magnesium Chinese: Mandarin: 鎂／镁 (zh) (měi) Cornish: magnysyum ? Corsican: magnesiu m Czech: hořčík (cs) m Danish: magnesium (da) n Dhivehi: މެގްނީޒިއަމް‎ (megnīziam̊) Dutch: magnesium (nl) n Esperanto: magnezio (eo) Estonian: magneesium (et) Faroese: magnesium n Finnish: magnesium (fi) French: magnésium (fr) m Friulian: magnesi ? Galician: magnesio (gl) m Georgian: მაგნიუმი (magniumi) German: Magnesium (de) n Greek: μαγνήσιο (el) n (magnísio) Haitian Creole: manyezyòm Hawaiian: makanekiuma Hebrew: מגנזיום‎ (he) m (magnezium) Hindi: भ्राजातु m (bhrājātu) Hungarian: magnézium (hu) Icelandic: magnesín (is) n, magnín n, magníum n, magnesíum n Ido: magnezo (io) Indonesian: magnesium (id) Interlingua: magnesium Irish: maignéisiam (ga) m Italian: magnesio (it) m Japanese: マグネシウム (ja) (maguneshiumu), 苦土素 (kudoso) Javanese: magnesium Kannada: ಮ್ಯಗ್ನೀಶಿಯಮ್ (myagnīśiyam) Kashubian: magnéz m, magnez m Kazakh: магний (magnii) Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស៊ីយ៉ុម (maañeesiiyoom), ម៉ាញ៉េស្យូម (maañeesyoum) Korean: 마그네슘 (ko) (mageunesyum) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: magnezyûm (ku) Latin: magnesium (la) n Latvian: magnijs (lv) m Lingala: manezu class 9a/10a Lithuanian: magnis (lt) m Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: magnesium ? German Low German: Magnesium ? Luxembourgish: Magnesium ? Macedonian: магнезиум m (magnezium) Malay: magnesium (ms) Malayalam: മഗ്നീഷ്യം (magnīṣyaṃ) Maltese: magneżju ? Manx: magneeshym m Maori: konupora Mongolian: магни (mn) (magni), ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ (maɣni) Navajo: béésh łikoní Norwegian: Bokmål: magnesium (no) m or n Nynorsk: magnesium (nn) m or n Occitan: magnèsi m Persian: منیزیم‎ (fa) (manyaziyom) Polish: magnez (pl) m Portuguese: magnésio (pt) m Punjabi: ਮੈਗਨੇਸ਼ਿਅਮ (maigneśiama) Quechua: qunta q'illay Romanian: magneziu (ro) n Russian: ма́гний (ru) m (mágnij) Scottish Gaelic: maignèisiam m, magnesium m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: магнезијум ?, ма̀гне̄зиј m Roman: magnezium ?, màgnēzij (sh) m Sicilian: magnesiu (scn) ? Slovak: horčík (sk) m Slovene: magnẹ̑zij (sl) m Spanish: magnesio (es) m Swahili: magnesi ? Swedish: magnesium (sv) n Tagalog: magnesyo Tajik: магний (tg) (magniy) Tamil: மக்னீசியம் (ta) (makṉīciyam), வல்லகுவம் (vallakuvam) Thai: แมกนีเซียม (th) (mɛ́k-nii-sîiam) Turkish: magnezyum (tr) Ukrainian: ма́гній m (máhnij), ма́ґній m (mágnij) Urdu: (please verify) بھراجاتو‎ m (bhrājātu) Uzbek: magniy (uz), магний (uz) (magniy) Vietnamese: magiê Welsh: magnesiwm (cy) m West Frisian: magnesium (fy) ?

See also

• artinite
• Birmabright
• bischofite
• brucite
• carnallite
• deweylite
• epsomite
• gymnite
• kieserite
• lansfordite
• nesquehonite
• nigari
• olivine
• sellaite
• talc

References

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

Anagrams

• mesangium

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Mg
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Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɡˈne.sium/, [maʊ̯ˈneˀɕɔm]

Noun

magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) magnesium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin magnesium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑxˈneː.zi.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Derived terms

• magnesiumpoeder

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English magnesium), ultimately from New Latin magnēsium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɡne(ː)s(ː)ium/, [ˈmɑɡne̞(ː)ˌs̠(ː)ium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium

1. magnesium

Declension

Inflection of magnesium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		magnesium	—
genitive		magnesiumin	—
partitive		magnesiumia	—
illative		magnesiumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		magnesium	—
accusative	nom.	magnesium	—
	gen.	magnesiumin
genitive		magnesiumin	—
partitive		magnesiumia	—
inessive		magnesiumissa	—
elative		magnesiumista	—
illative		magnesiumiin	—
adessive		magnesiumilla	—
ablative		magnesiumilta	—
allative		magnesiumille	—
essive		magnesiumina	—
translative		magnesiumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		magnesiumitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of magnesium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	magnesiumini	magnesiumimme
2nd person	magnesiumisi	magnesiuminne
3rd person	magnesiuminsa

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Interlingua

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maɡˈneː.si.um/, [mäŋˈneːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲˈɲe.si.um/, [mäɲˈɲɛːs̬ium]

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Etymology 1

Form of magnēsius.

Adjective

magnēsium

1. inflection of magnēsius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 2

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Substantivization of the neuter form of magnēsius (“of or pertaining to the region of Magnesia”).

Noun

magnēsium n (genitive magnēsiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) magnesium (chemical element 12)
   • 1782, D. Laurentius & Gulielmo Huntero, "Nova experimenta Chemica quae ad penitiorem Acidi e Pinguedine eruti cognitionem valere videntur", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I, page 28

     Magnesium nitratum nullum converſionem expertum eſt a noſtri acidi admixtione.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnēsium	magnēsia
Genitive	magnēsiī	magnēsiōrum
Dative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
Accusative	magnēsium	magnēsia
Ablative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
Vocative	magnēsium	magnēsia

Related terms

• Magnēsia
• magnēsius

Descendants

• English: magnesium
• Galician: magnesio
• Italian: magnesio
• Portuguese: magnésio
• Romanian: magneziu
• Spanish: magnesio

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑ˧ˈɲeː˨ʒɔ˧m]

Noun

magnesium n

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

Inflection

Declension of magnesium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	magnesium	magnesia	magnesieke	magnesiekes
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesia	magnesiekes	magnesiekes
Locative	magnesieës	magnesieëser	magnesieëske	magnesieëskes
Dative¹	magnesiumme	—	magnesieke	—
Accusative¹	magnesium	—	magnesieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Alternative forms

• مݢنيسيوم‎

Etymology

From English magnesium, from New Latin magnēsium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maknesiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

magnesium (Jawi spelling مݢنيسيوم)

1. magnesium (chemical element)

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Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian magnesium.

Noun

magnēsium

1. magnesium

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	magnēsium
Genitive	magnēsiuma
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnēsium	magnēsiumat
Accusative	magnēsiuma	magnēsiumiid
Genitive	magnēsiuma	magnēsiumiid
Illative	magnēsiumii	magnēsiumiidda
Locative	magnēsiumis	magnēsiumiin
Comitative	magnēsiumiin	magnēsiumiiguin
Essive	magnēsiumin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person magnēsiuman magnēsiumeamẹ magnēsiumeamẹt 2nd person magnēsiumat magnēsiumeattẹ magnēsiumeattẹt 3rd person magnēsiumis magnēsiumeaskkạ magnēsiumeasẹt

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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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

• “magnesium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “magnesium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

• “magnesium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈneːsɪɵm/

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Declension

Declension of magnesium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnesium	magnesiumet	—	—
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesiumets	—	—

Declension of magnesium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnesium	magnesiet	—	—
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesiets	—	—