lithium

See also: Lithium

English

Chemical element
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Etymology

From New Latin lithium, from lithia (in reference to Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”)) + -ium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪθi.əm/

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Noun

lithium (countable and uncountable, plural lithiums)

1. (uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3.
2. (pharmacology, uncountable) Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
3. A lithium battery.

Derived terms

terms derived from "lithium"

• butyllithium
• dilithium
• lithium-6
• lithium-7
• lithium acetate
• lithium aluminium hydride
• lithium battery
• lithium bromide
• lithium carbonate
• lithium chloride
• lithium citrate
• lithium deuteride
• lithium diisopropylamide
• lithium-drifted silicon detector
• lithium economy
• lithium fluoride
• lithium hydride
• lithium hydroxide
• lithium iodide
• lithium ion battery
• lithium naphthalide

• lithium niobate
• lithium nitrate
• lithium nitride
• lithium orotate
• lithium oxide
• lithium oxybutyrate
• lithium perchlorate
• lithium soap
• lithium stearate
• lithium sulfate, lithium sulphate
• lithium sulfide, lithium sulphide
• lithium tantalate
• lithium triborate
• methyllithium
• organolithium
• paralithium
• phenyllithium
• trilithium
• vinyllithium
• yttrium lithium fluoride

Related terms

terms related to "lithium"

• lithate, lithiate
• lithia
• lithian
• lithiated

• lithic
• lithiophilite
• lithiophorite

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: litium
• Albanian: litiumi
• Amharic: ሊቲየም (litiyäm)
• Arabic: لِيثْيُوم‏‎ m (liṯyum)
• Aragonese: litio
• Armenian: լիթիում (hy) (litʿium)
• Asturian: litiu (ast)
• Azeri: litium
• Basque: litioa
• Belarusian: лі́тый m (lítyj)
• Bengali: লিথিযাম (lithiyām)
• Breton: litiom
• Bulgarian: ли́тий (bg) m (lítij)
• Burmese: လီသီယမ် (lisiyam)
• Catalan: liti (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鋰, 锂 (lei⁵)

  Hakka: 鋰, 锂 (lî)

  Literary Chinese: 鋰

  Mandarin: 鋰 (zh), 锂 (zh) (lǐ)

  Min Dong: 鋰, 锂 (lī)

  Min Nan: 鋰, 锂 (lí)

• Chuvash: лити (liti)
• Cornish: lythyum
• Corsican: litiu
• Czech: lithium (cs) m
• Danish: lithium (da)
• Dutch: lithium (nl) n
• Esperanto: litio (eo)
• Estonian: liitium (et)
• Faroese: litium n
• Finnish: litium (fi)
• French: lithium (fr) m
• Friulian: liti
• Galician: litio (gl)
• Georgian: ლითიუმი (litiumi)
• German: Lithium (de) n

  Central Franconian: Lithium

• Greek: λίθιο (el) n (líthio)
• Haitian Creole: lityòm
• Hawaiian: likiuma
• Hebrew: ליתיום‏‎ (he) (lityum)
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu)
• Hungarian: lítium (hu)
• Icelandic: litín (is) n, liþín (is) n, litíum n
• Ido: litio (io)
• Indonesian: litium (id)
• Interlingua: lithium
• Irish: litiam (ga) m
• Italian: litio (it) m
• Japanese: リチウム (ja) (richiumu)
• Javanese: litium
• Kannada: ಲಥಯಮ (lathayama)
• Kashubian: lët

• Kazakh: литий (kk) (lïtïy)
• Korean: 리튬 (ko) (rityum)
• Kurdish: lîtyûm
• Kyrgyz: литий (litiy)
• Latin: lithium (la)
• Latvian: litijs (lv) m
• Lithuanian: litis (lt)
• Lojban: roksodna
• Low German: lithium
• Luxembourgish: Lithium
• Macedonian: литиум (litium)
• Malay: litium
• Malayalam: ലിഥിയം (lithiyaṃ)
• Maltese: litju m
• Manx: litçhey
• Maori: konukōhatu
• Mongolian: лити (liti)
• Norwegian: litium (no)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: litium (nn)

• Occitan: liti (oc)
• Persian: لیتیم‏‎ (fa)
• Polish: lit (pl) m
• Portuguese: lítio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਲਿਥੀਅਮ (pa) (lithīam)
• Quechua: lityu
• Romanian: litiu (ro) n
• Russian: ли́тий (ru) m (lítij)
• Sanskrit: लिथियम (lithiyama)
• Scottish Gaelic: litiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литиjум m, литиj m

  Roman: litijum m, litij (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ලිතියම් (litiyam)
• Slovak: lítium (sk) n
• Slovene: litij (sl)
• Spanish: litio (es) m
• Sundanese: litium
• Swahili: lithi
• Swedish: litium (sv) n
• Tagalog: lityo
• Tajik: литий (tg) (litiy)
• Tamil: மென்னியம் (meṉṉiyam)
• Thai: ลิเทียม (th) (lí-tîiam)
• Turkish: lityum (tr)
• Turkmen: litiý
• Ukrainian: лі́тій m (lítij)
• Urdu: لتھیئم‏‎
• Uzbek: litiy (uz), литий (uz)
• Vietnamese: lithi, liti
• Volapük: litin (vo)
• Welsh: lithiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: litium (fy)
• Yiddish: ליטיום‏‎ m (litium)

treatment for mental disorders

• Bulgarian: ли́тий (bg) m (lítij)
• Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: литиj m

  Roman: litij (sh) m

• Spanish: litio (es) m

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Czech

Noun

lithium n

1. lithium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Li	Previous: helium (He)
	Next: beryllium (Be)

Pronunciation

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Noun

lithium n (uncountable)

1. lithium

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.tjɔm/

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Noun

lithium m (uncountable)

1. lithium

Further reading

• “lithium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Chemical element
Li	Previous: helium (He)
	Next: beryllium (Be)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.tʰi.um/, [ˈlɪ.tʰi.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ti.um/, [ˈliː.ti.um]

Noun

lithium n (genitive lithiī); second declension

1. (New Latin, chemistry) lithium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	lithium	lithia
genitive	lithiī	lithiōrum
dative	lithiō	lithiīs
accusative	lithium	lithia
ablative	lithiō	lithiīs
vocative	lithium	lithia