palladium

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

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

Noun

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard (from a statue of Athena that was believed to safeguard the ancient city of Troy).
   • Blackstone

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

Translations

a safeguard

• German: Schutz (de) m
• Russian: палладиум (ru) (palládium) m

• Serbo-Croatian: paladij (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 (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.

Derived terms

Derived terms

dioxide of palladium pallad- palladic palladiferous palladio- palladious, palladous 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 (sq)
• Arabic: بلاديوم (ar) (baládyum) m
• Armenian: պալադիում (hy) (paladium)
• Asturian: paladiu (ast) m
• Basque: paladioa (eu)
• Belarusian: паладый (be) (paládyj) m
• Breton: palladiom (br)
• Bulgarian: паладий (bg) (paládij) m
• Catalan: pal·ladi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鈀, 钯 (bǎ)

  Mandarin: 鈀 (cmn), 钯 (cmn) (bǎ)

• Cornish: paladyum (kw)
• Czech: palladium (cs)
• Danish: palladium (da)
• Dutch: palladium (nl) n
• Esperanto: paladio (eo)
• Estonian: pallaadium (et)
• Faroese: palladium (fo)
• Finnish: palladium (fi)
• French: palladium (fr) m
• Friulian: paladi
• Galician: paladio (gl)
• Georgian: პალადიუმი (ka) (paladiumi)
• German: Palladium (de) n
• Greek: παλλάδιο (el) (palládio) n
• Hebrew: פלדיום (he) (paládyum)
• Hindi: निचूषातु (hi) (nichooshaatu)
• Hungarian: palládium (hu)
• Icelandic: palladín (is)
• Interlingua: palladium (ia)
• Irish: pallaidiam (ga)
• Italian: palladio (it) m

• Japanese: パラジウム (ja) (parajiumu)
• Kashubian: pallôd (csb)
• Kazakh: палладий (kk) (palladiy)
• Korean: 팔라듐 (ko) (palladyum)
• Latvian: pallādijs (lv)
• Lithuanian: paladis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Palladium (lb)
• Macedonian: паладиум (mk) (paládium) m
• Malay: paladium (ms)
• Maltese: palladju (mt)
• Manx: pallaadjum (gv)
• Mongolian: паллади (mn) (palladi)
• Norwegian: palladium (no)
• Polish: pallad (pl) m
• Portuguese: paládio (pt) m
• Romanian: paladiu (ro) n
• Russian: палладий (ru) (palládij) m
• Scottish Gaelic: pallaidiam (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паладиjум (sh) m, паладиj (sh) m

  Roman: paladijum (sh) m, paladij (sh) m

• Slovak: paládium (sk)
• Slovene: paladij (sl)
• Spanish: paladio (es) m
• Swedish: palladium (sv) n
• Tajik: palladi' (tg) (palladi')
• Tamil: வெண்ணிரும்பு (ta) (veNNirumbu)
• Thai: แพลเลเดียม (th) (phaellēdiam)
• Turkish: palladyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: паладiй (uk) (paládij) m
• Uzbek: палладий (uz) (palladiy)
• Vietnamese: palađi (vi)
• Welsh: paladiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: palladium (fy)

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Dutch

Wikipedia ^nl

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Noun

palladium

1. palladium

Declension

Declension of palladium (type risti) singular plural nominative palladium – genitive palladiumin – partitive palladiumia – accusative palladium palladiumin – inessive palladiumissa – elative palladiumista – illative palladiumiin – adessive palladiumilla – ablative palladiumilta – allative palladiumille – essive palladiumina – translative palladiumiksi – instructive – – abessive palladiumitta – comitative – –

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pa.la.djɔm/

Noun

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

Noun

palladium (genitive palladiī); n, second declension

1. palladium

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	palladium	palladia
genitive	palladiī	palladiōrum
dative	palladiō	palladiīs
accusative	palladium	palladia
ablative	palladiō	palladiīs
vocative	palladium	palladia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

Noun

palladium n

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

Inflection

Declension of palladium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	palladiumum	palladiuma	palladiumeke	palladiumekes
Genitive	palladiumums	palladiuma	palladiumekes	palladiumekes
Locative	palladiumeës	palladiumeëser	palladiumeëske	palladiumeëskes
Dative¹	palladiumumme	—	palladiumeke	—
Accusative¹	palladiumum	—	palladiumeke	—

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Swedish

Wikipedia ^sv

Pronunciation

• IPA: /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/

Noun

palladium n

1. palladium

Declension

Declension of palladium

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	palladium	palladiumet
genitive	palladiums	palladiumets