chemia

See also: chémia and chemią

Latin

Alternative forms

• chimia, chymia

Etymology

Clipping of alchēmīa (“alchemy”), from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ), from Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʰeːˈmiː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [keˈmiː.a]

Noun

chēmīa f sg (genitive chēmīae); first declension

1. (New Latin) chemistry

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	chēmīa
genitive	chēmīae
dative	chēmīae
accusative	chēmīam
ablative	chēmīā
vocative	chēmīa

Related terms

• chēmicus

Descendants

• → French: chimie (learned)
  • Haitian Creole: chimi
  • → Iranian Persian: شیمی (šīmī)
• → German: Chemie
• → Greek: χημεία (chimeía)
• → Polish: chemia
• → Romanian: chimie (learned)
• → Russian: хи́мия (xímija)

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.

Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.

Medieval Latin alchēmia

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Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.

Latin chēmialbor.

Polish chemia

Learned borrowing from Latin chēmia. Doublet of alchemia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛ.mja/

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• Rhymes: -ɛmja
• Syllabification: che‧mia

Noun

chemia f

1. chemistry
2. (informal) chemotherapy

   Synonym: chemioterapia

Declension

Declension of chemia

	singular
nominative	chemia
genitive	chemii
dative	chemii
accusative	chemię
instrumental	chemią
locative	chemii
vocative	chemio

Derived terms

adjectives

• biogeochemiczny
• chemiczny
• geochemiczny

adverb

• chemicznie

nouns

• agrochemia
• astrochemia
• biogeochemia
• chemiczka
• chemik
• geochemia
• geochemik

Further reading

• “chemia”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “chemia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)