palladium

See also: Palladium and palládium

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /pəˈleɪdiəm/

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Etymology 1

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an alternative name for Athena.

Noun

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

   • 1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, in 1967:

     The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.

Translations

a safeguard

• Bulgarian: щит (bg) m (štit), защита (bg) f (zaštita)
• German: Schutz (de) m
• Russian: палла́диум (ru) m (palládium)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̀ла̄диј m

  Roman: pàlādij (sh) m

• Spanish: paladión (es) f

Etymology 2

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

Chemical element
Pd
Previous: rhodium (Rh)
Next: silver (Ag)

Noun

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• dioxide of palladium
• pallad-
• palladic
• palladide
• palladiferous
• palladio-
• palladious, palladous
• palladium black
• palladium chloride
• palladium cyanide
• palladium dichloride
• palladium dinitrate
• palladium hydride
• palladiumise, palladiumize
• palladium nitrate
• protoxide of palladium

 

Related terms

• Pallas

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: palladium (af)
• Albanian: palad m
• Arabic: بَلَادْيُوم m (balādiyum)
• Armenian: պալադիում (hy) (paladium)
• Asturian: paladiu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: palladium
• Basque: paladioa
• Belarusian: пала́дый m (paládyj)
• Breton: palladiom ?
• Bulgarian: пала́дий m (paládij)
• Burmese: ပယ်လေဒီယမ် (pailediyam)
• Catalan: pal·ladi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈀／钯 (paa⁴)

  Mandarin: 鈀／钯 (zh) (bǎ)

• Cornish: paladyum ?
• Czech: palladium (cs) n
• Danish: palladium (da) n
• Dutch: palladium (nl) n
• Esperanto: paladio (eo)
• Estonian: pallaadium (et)
• Faroese: palladium n
• Finnish: palladium (fi)
• French: palladium (fr) m
• Friulian: paladi ?
• Galician: paladio (gl) m
• Georgian: პალადიუმი (ṗaladiumi)
• German: Palladium (de) n
• Greek: παλλάδιο (el) n (palládio)
• Hebrew: פָּלַדְיוּם (he) m (paládyum)
• Hindi: निचूषातु ? (nicūṣātu)
• Hungarian: palládium (hu)
• Icelandic: palladín (is) n
• Interlingua: palladium
• Irish: pallaidiam (ga) m
• Italian: palladio (it) m
• Japanese: パラジウム (ja) (parajiumu)
• Kashubian: pallôd m
• Kazakh: палладий (palladii)
• Khmer: ប៉ាឡាដ្យូម (paalaatyuum)
• Korean: 팔라듐 (ko) (palladyum)
• Kyrgyz: палладий (ky) (palladiy)
• Latvian: pallādijs m
• Lithuanian: paladis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Palladium ?
• Macedonian: паладиум m (paladium)
• Malay: paladium
• Maltese: palladju m
• Manx: pallaadjum ?
• Mongolian: паллади (palladi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: palladium n

  Nynorsk: palladium (nn) n

• Occitan: palladi m
• Persian: پالادیم (pâlâdyom)
• Polish: pallad (pl) m
• Portuguese: paládio (pt) m
• Romanian: paladiu (ro) n
• Russian: палла́дий (ru) m (palládij)
• Scottish Gaelic: paladium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паладиjум m, па̀ла̄диј m

  Roman: paladijum m, pàlādij (sh) m

• Slovak: paládium (sk) n
• Slovene: paládij (sl) m
• Spanish: paladio (es) m
• Swedish: palladium (sv) n
• Tagalog: paladyo
• Tajik: палладий (palladiy)
• Tamil: வெண்ணிரும்பு (veṇṇirumpu)
• Thai: แพลเลเดียม (pɛɛl-lee-dîiam)
• Turkish: palladyum (tr)
• Turkmen: palladiý
• Ukrainian: пала́дій m (paládij)
• Uzbek: palladiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: palađi
• Welsh: paladiwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: palladium ?

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Pd
Previous: rodium (Rh)
Next: silwer (Ag)

Pronunciation

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Noun

palladium (uncountable)

1. palladium

Danish

Noun

palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)

1. palladium

Dutch

Chemical element
Pd
Previous: rhodium (Rh)
Next: zilver (Ag)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑˈlaː.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: pal‧la‧di‧um

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English palladium.

Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium (element)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).

Noun

palladium n (plural palladia)

1. (archaic) palladium, safeguard (something that guarantees protection)
   • 1849, Petrus Hofstede de Groot, Is bezuiniging op het Onderwijs, voor al door opheffing eener Hoogeschool, aan te raden?, publ. by C. M. van Bolhuis Hoitsema, page 33.

     Het is toch algemeen aangenomen , dat Universiteiten de palladia der geleerdheid en beschaving zijn ; […]

     It is after all commonly assumed that universities are the palladia of learnedness and civilisation; […]

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English palladium), ultimately from Latin Palladium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑlːɑdium/, [ˈpɑ̝lːɑ̝ˌdium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): pal‧la‧di‧um

Noun

palladium

1. palladium

Declension

Inflection of palladium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		palladium	—
genitive		palladiumin	—
partitive		palladiumia	—
illative		palladiumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		palladium	—
accusative	nom.	palladium	—
	gen.	palladiumin
genitive		palladiumin	—
partitive		palladiumia	—
inessive		palladiumissa	—
elative		palladiumista	—
illative		palladiumiin	—
adessive		palladiumilla	—
ablative		palladiumilta	—
allative		palladiumille	—
essive		palladiumina	—
translative		palladiumiksi	—
abessive		palladiumitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of palladium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative palladiumini — accusative nom. palladiumini — gen. palladiumini genitive palladiumini — partitive palladiumiani — inessive palladiumissani — elative palladiumistani — illative palladiumiini — adessive palladiumillani — ablative palladiumiltani — allative palladiumilleni — essive palladiuminani — translative palladiumikseni — abessive palladiumittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative palladiumisi — accusative nom. palladiumisi — gen. palladiumisi genitive palladiumisi — partitive palladiumiasi — inessive palladiumissasi — elative palladiumistasi — illative palladiumiisi — adessive palladiumillasi — ablative palladiumiltasi — allative palladiumillesi — essive palladiuminasi — translative palladiumiksesi — abessive palladiumittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative palladiumimme — accusative nom. palladiumimme — gen. palladiumimme genitive palladiumimme — partitive palladiumiamme — inessive palladiumissamme — elative palladiumistamme — illative palladiumiimme — adessive palladiumillamme — ablative palladiumiltamme — allative palladiumillemme — essive palladiuminamme — translative palladiumiksemme — abessive palladiumittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative palladiuminne — accusative nom. palladiuminne — gen. palladiuminne genitive palladiuminne — partitive palladiumianne — inessive palladiumissanne — elative palladiumistanne — illative palladiumiinne — adessive palladiumillanne — ablative palladiumiltanne — allative palladiumillenne — essive palladiuminanne — translative palladiumiksenne — abessive palladiumittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative palladiuminsa — accusative nom. palladiuminsa — gen. palladiuminsa genitive palladiuminsa — partitive palladiumiaan palladiumiansa — inessive palladiumissaan palladiumissansa — elative palladiumistaan palladiumistansa — illative palladiumiinsa — adessive palladiumillaan palladiumillansa — ablative palladiumiltaan palladiumiltansa — allative palladiumilleen palladiumillensa — essive palladiuminaan palladiuminansa — translative palladiumikseen palladiumiksensa — abessive palladiumittaan palladiumittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Further reading

• “palladium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.djɔm/

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Noun

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

Further reading

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

Latin

Chemical element
Pd
Previous: rhodium (Rh)
Next: argentum (Ag)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈlʲäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈläːd̪ium]

Noun

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension

1. palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palladium	palladia
Genitive	palladiī	palladiōrum
Dative	palladiō	palladiīs
Accusative	palladium	palladia
Ablative	palladiō	palladiīs
Vocative	palladium	palladia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

Noun

palladium n

1. (uncountable) palladium
2. a part of palladium

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

References

• “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

Etymology 2

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)

1. palladium, safeguard

References

• “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Chemical element
Pd
Previous: rodium (Rh)
Next: silver (Ag)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/

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Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

Declension

Declension of palladium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	palladium	palladiumet	—	—
Genitive	palladiums	palladiumets	—	—