charmonium

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English charm

English onium

English -on

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -iumlbor.

English -ium

English -onium

English charmonium

From charm + -onium.

Noun

charmonium (plural charmoniums or charmonia)

1. (particle physics) Any meson formed from a charm quark and its antiquark.

Derived terms

• charmoniumlike
• orthocharmonium
• paracharmonium

Translations

meson

• French: charmonium (fr) m
• Russian: чармо́ний m (čarmónij)

See also

• J/ψ particle
• bottomonium
• quarkonium
• strangeonium
• toponium