rhodium

rhodium

See also: Rhodium

English

Chemical element
Rh
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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rō'dēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊdiəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -oʊdiəm

Noun

rhodium (usually uncountable, plural rhodiums)

1. A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• rhodate
• rhodium-gold
• rhodium trichloride

Related terms

• rhodic
• rhodo- and its derivatives
• rhodonite (etymologically related [via color] but not chemically related)
• rhodium wood, lignum rhodium

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: rodium (af) Albanian: rodium Arabic: رُودْيُوم‎ m (rudyum) Armenian: ռոդիում (hy) (ṙodium) Asturian: rodiu (ast) m Basque: rodioa Belarusian: ро́дый m (ródyj) Breton: rodiom Bulgarian: ро́дий m (ródij) Catalan: rodi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 銠／铑 (zh) (lǎo) Cornish: rhodyum Czech: rhodium (cs) n Danish: rhodium (da) n Dutch: rhodium (nl) n Esperanto: rodio (eo) Estonian: roodium (et) Faroese: rodium n Finnish: rodium (fi) French: rhodium (fr) m Friulian: rodi Galician: rodio (gl) m Georgian: როდიუმი (rodiumi) German: Rhodium (de) n Greek: ρόδιο (el) n (ródio) Hebrew: רודיום‎ (he) (rodyum) Hindi: नाम्लातु (nāmlātu) Hungarian: ródium (hu) Icelandic: ródín (is) Interlingua: rhodium Irish: róidiam (ga) Italian: rodio (it) m Japanese: ロジウム (ja) (rojiumu) Kashubian: ród Kazakh: родий (kk) (rodii) Khmer: រ៉ូដ្យូម (roudyoum) Korean: 로듐 (ko) (rodyum) Latin: rhodium (la) Latvian: rodijs Lithuanian: rodis (lt) Luxembourgish: Rhodium Macedonian: родиум m (rodium) Malay: rodium Maltese: rodju Manx: roydjum Mongolian: роди (rodi) Norwegian: Bokmål: rhodium n Nynorsk: rhodium (nn) n Occitan: ròdi m Polish: rod (pl) m Portuguese: ródio (pt) m Romanian: rodiu (ro) n Russian: ро́дий (ru) m (ródij) Scottish Gaelic: ròidiam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: родиј m, родијум m Roman: rodij (sh) m, rodijum m Slovak: ródium (sk) Slovene: rodij (sl) Spanish: rodio (es) m Swedish: rodium (sv) n Tagalog: rodyo Tajik: родий (rodiy) Tamil: அரத்தியம் (arattiyam) Thai: โรเดียม (roo-dîiam) Turkish: rodyum (tr) Ukrainian: ро́дій m (ródij) Uzbek: rodiy (uz), родий (rodiy) Vietnamese: rođi Welsh: rhodiwm (cy) West Frisian: rhodium

Anagrams

• humidor, midhour

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiummet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)

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Dutch

Chemical element
Rh
Previous: ruthenium (Ru)
Next: palladium (Pd)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

rhodium n (uncountable)

1. rhodium

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.djɔm/

• Audio

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Noun

rhodium m (uncountable)

1. rhodium

Further reading

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

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Latin

Chemical element
Rh
Previous: ruthenium (Ru)
Next: palladium (Pd)

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔːd̪ium]

Noun

rhodium n (genitive rhodiī); second declension

1. rhodium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhodium	rhodia
Genitive	rhodiī	rhodiōrum
Dative	rhodiō	rhodiīs
Accusative	rhodium	rhodia
Ablative	rhodiō	rhodiīs
Vocative	rhodium	rhodia

Descendants

All are borrowed.

• Danish: rhodium
• Dutch: rhodium
• English: rhodium
• French: rhodium
• German: Rhodium
• Italian: rodio
• Luxembourgish: Rhodium
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rhodium
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: rhodium
• Spanish: rodio

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiumet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiumet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (as above)