cerium

cerium

See also: cérium

English

Chemical element
Ce
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Alternative forms

• cererium (a name proposed (but not accepted) to indicate "cerium" does not come from the Greek word for "wax")

Etymology

From Ceres (“a recently discovered asteroid”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sîr'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹiəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cerate
• ceric
• cerine
• cerite
• cerium dioxide
• cerium metals
• cerium oxide
• cerium trichloride
• cerous
• ferrocerium

Related terms

• Ceres
• ceria

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: serium (af) Albanian: cerium (sq) Arabic: سِيرْيُوم‎ m (siryum) Armenian: ցերիում (hy) (cʿerium) Asturian: ceriu (ast) m Basque: zerioa Belarusian: цэ́рый m (céryj) Breton: seriom Bulgarian: це́рий m (cérij) Catalan: ceri (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 鈰／铈 (zh) (shì) Cornish: keryum Czech: cér m, cer (cs) m Danish: cerium (da) Dutch: cerium (nl) n Esperanto: cerio (eo) Estonian: tseerium (et) Faroese: serium n Finnish: cerium (fi) French: cérium (fr) m Friulian: ceri Galician: cerio (gl) m Georgian: ცერიუმი (ceriumi) German: Cer (de) n Greek: δημήτριο (el) n (dimítrio) Hebrew: סריום‎ (seryum) Hindi: पुष्कला (puṣkalā) Hungarian: cérium (hu) Icelandic: serín (is) Irish: ceiriam Italian: cerio (it) m Japanese: セリウム (ja) (seriumu) Kashubian: cer Kazakh: церий (kk) (serii) Khmer: សេរ៉្យូម (seeryuum) Korean: 세륨 (ko) (seryum) Latin: cerium (la) Latvian: cērijs Lithuanian: ceris (lt) Luxembourgish: Zer Macedonian: цериум m (cerium) Malay: serium Maltese: sirjum Manx: kerrium Mongolian: цери (ceri) Norwegian: cerium Occitan: cèri m Persian: سریم‎ (seriom) Polish: cer (pl) m Portuguese: cério (pt) m Romanian: ceriu (ro) n Russian: це́рий (ru) m (cérij) Scottish Gaelic: ceiriam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: церијум m, церијум m Roman: cerij (sh) m, cerijum m Slovak: cér (sk) Slovene: cerij (sl) Spanish: cerio (es) m Swedish: cerium (sv) n Tajik: церий (tseriy) Thai: ซีเรียม (sii-rîiam) Turkish: seryum (tr) Ukrainian: це́рій (uk) m (cérij) Uzbek: церий (uz), tseriy Vietnamese: xeri Volapük: zerin (vo) Welsh: ceriwm West Frisian: cerium

See also

• allanite
• bastnasite
• CAN
• hydroxylbastnasite
• jeweler's rouge, jeweller's rouge
• monazite
• orthite
• rhabdophane
• synchysite

Anagrams

• uremic

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Danish

Noun

cerium

1. cerium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Ce
Previous: lanthaan (La)
Next: praseodymium (Pr)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish cerium, New Latin cerium or French cérium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.riˌʏm/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ce‧ri‧um

Noun

cerium n (uncountable)

1. cerium [from 1830s or earlier]

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English cerium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːri.um/, [ˈs̠e̞ːri.um]

Noun

cerium

1. cerium

Declension

Inflection of cerium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		cerium	—
genitive		ceriumin	—
partitive		ceriumia	—
illative		ceriumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		cerium	—
accusative	nom.	cerium	—
	gen.	ceriumin
genitive		ceriumin	—
partitive		ceriumia	—
inessive		ceriumissa	—
elative		ceriumista	—
illative		ceriumiin	—
adessive		ceriumilla	—
ablative		ceriumilta	—
allative		ceriumille	—
essive		ceriumina	—
translative		ceriumiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		ceriumitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of cerium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	ceriumini	ceriumimme
2nd person	ceriumisi	ceriuminne
3rd person	ceriuminsa

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κηρίον (kēríon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ri.um/, [ˈkeːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

Noun

cērium n (genitive cēriī or cērī); second declension

1. A bad species of swelling or ulcer

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cērium	cēria
Genitive	cēriī cērī1	cēriōrum
Dative	cēriō	cēriīs
Accusative	cērium	cēria
Ablative	cēriō	cēriīs
Vocative	cērium	cēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ri.um/, [ˈkɛriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

Noun

cerium n (genitive ceriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) cerium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cerium	ceria
Genitive	ceriī	ceriōrum
Dative	ceriō	ceriīs
Accusative	cerium	ceria
Ablative	ceriō	ceriīs
Vocative	cerium	ceria

References

• “cerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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Swedish

Chemical element
Ce
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Next: praseodym (Pr)

Noun

cerium n

1. cerium

Declension

Declension of cerium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cerium	ceriumet	—	—
Genitive	ceriums	ceriumets	—	—