cadmia

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cadmia (“calamine”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek καδμεία (kadmeía, “calamine”). Compare calamine.

Noun

cadmia (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete) An oxide of zinc that collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral
2. (mineralogy, obsolete) Calamine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cadmia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Adamic

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cadmias, cadmiât

Verb

cadmia

1. third-person singular past historic of cadmier

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Italian

Verb

cadmia

1. third-person singular present indicative of cadmiare
2. second-person singular imperative of cadmiare

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Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek κᾰδμείᾱ, κᾰδμήᾱ, ‎κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmeíā, kadmḗā, ‎kadmíā, “calamine”).

Alternative forms

• cadmēa
• (Medieval Latin) calamīna

Pronunciation

cadmīa

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kadˈmiː.a/, [käd̪ˈmiːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kadˈmi.a/, [käd̪ˈmiːä]

cadmĭa

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]

Noun

cadmī̆a f (genitive cadmī̆ae); first declension

1. an ore of zinc, calamine, cadmia
2. the dross or slag formed in a furnace

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cadmī̆a	cadmī̆ae
Genitive	cadmī̆ae	cadmī̆ārum
Dative	cadmī̆ae	cadmī̆īs
Accusative	cadmī̆am	cadmī̆ās
Ablative	cadmī̆ā	cadmī̆īs
Vocative	cadmī̆a	cadmī̆ae

Descendants

• English: cadmia

References

• “cadmī̆a”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 cadmēa (-mīa ou -mĭa) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “235/2”

Etymology 2

Regularly conjugated forms of cadmium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/, [ˈkäd̪miä]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cadmia n

1. nominative plural of cadmium
2. accusative plural of cadmium
3. vocative plural of cadmium