elohopea
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]| Chemical element (edit) | ||||||||
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| Hg Atomic number 80 elohopea | ||||||||
Classification data
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Etymology
[edit]elo (“living”) + hopea (“silver”), perhaps a calque of Latin argentum vīvum (literally “living silver”). Coined by Finnish folk poetry researcher, translator and journalist Julius Krohn in 1860,[1] as a shortening of earlier elävä hopea (literally “living silver”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈeloˌhopeɑ/, [ˈe̞lo̞ˌho̞pe̞ɑ̝]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -opeɑ
- Syllabification(key): e‧lo‧ho‧pe‧a
- Hyphenation(key): elo‧hopea
Noun
[edit]elohopea
- mercury, quicksilver (Hg)
- (figuratively) thermometer (in which the level of mercury indicates temperature)
- Elohopea näyttää kahtakymmentä astetta.
- The thermometer reading is twenty degrees.
- (literally, “The mercury indicates twenty degrees.”)
- (figuratively) lively thing or person, especially a child
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of elohopea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
| genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten | |
| partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
| illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
| accusative | nom. | elohopea | elohopeat |
| gen. | elohopean | ||
| genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten elohopeain rare | |
| partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
| inessive | elohopeassa | elohopeissa | |
| elative | elohopeasta | elohopeista | |
| illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
| adessive | elohopealla | elohopeilla | |
| ablative | elohopealta | elohopeilta | |
| allative | elohopealle | elohopeille | |
| essive | elohopeana | elohopeina | |
| translative | elohopeaksi | elohopeiksi | |
| abessive | elohopeatta | elohopeitta | |
| instructive | — | elohopein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Hypernyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (mercury): Category:fi:Chemical elements, Category:fi:Metals
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “elohopea”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
Categories:
- fi:Chemical elements
- fi:Transition metals
- fi:Period 6 elements
- fi:Group 12 elements
- fi:D-block elements
- Finnish compound terms
- Finnish terms calqued from Latin
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish terms coined by Julius Krohn
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/opeɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/opeɑ/5 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish korkea-type nominals
- fi:Metals
