lutetium

See also: Lutetium and lutétium

English

Chemical element
Lu
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Lutetium cube and dendrites.

Alternative forms

• lutecium (no longer used after 1949, when lutetium was made the official spelling)

Etymology

From Latin Lutetia (“Paris, the capital of France”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lūtē'shēəm, IPA^(key): /ljuːˈtiːʃiəm/

Noun

lutetium (uncountable)

1. A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.

Synonyms

• cassiopeium (name proposed by Baron Carl Auer von Welsbach, one of the discoverers of lutetium, but rejected)

Derived terms

• lutetium oxide

Related terms

• cassiopeium
• Lutetian

Translations

chemical element with atomic number of 71

• Afrikaans: lutetium
• Albanian: lutec
• Arabic: لُوتِيتْيُوم‎ m (lutityum)
• Armenian: լուտեցիում (lutecʿium)
• Asturian: luteciu m
• Basque: lutezioa
• Belarusian: лютэ́цый m (ljutécyj)
• Breton: lutesiom (br)
• Bulgarian: люте́ций m (ljutécij)
• Catalan: luteci (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 镥 (zh), 鎦 (zh) (lǔ)

• Cornish: lutetyum
• Czech: lutecium (cs)
• Danish: lutetium (da)
• Dutch: lutetium (nl) n
• Esperanto: lutecio (eo)
• Estonian: luteetsium (et)
• Faroese: lutetium
• Finnish: lutetium (fi)
• French: lutécium (fr) m
• Friulian: lutezi
• Galician: lutecio (gl) m
• Georgian: ლუტეციუმი (luṭeciumi)
• German: Lutetium (de) n, Cassiopeium n (obsolete)
• Greek: λουτέτσιο n (loutétsio)
• Hebrew: לוטטיום‎ (he) (lutetyum)
• Hindi: निर्वर्णला (nirvarṇalā)
• Hungarian: lutécium (hu)
• Icelandic: lútesín
• Irish: lúitéitiam
• Italian: lutezio (it) m
• Japanese: ルテチウム (ja) (rutechiumu), 鎦 (ja)
• Kashubian: lutet

• Korean: 루테튬 (ko) (rutetyum)
• Latin: lutetium (la)
• Latvian: lutēcijs m
• Lithuanian: lutecis (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Lutetium
• Macedonian: лутециум m (lutecium)
• Malay: lutetium
• Maltese: lutizjum
• Manx: lootaiçhum
• Mongolian: лйутеци (ljutetsi)
• Norwegian: lutetium
• Polish: lutet (pl) m
• Portuguese: lutécio (pt) m
• Romanian: lutețiu (ro) n
• Russian: люте́ций (ru) m (ljutécij)
• Scottish Gaelic: luitèitiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лутециj m, лутециjум m

  Roman: lutecij (sh) m, lutecijum m

• Slovak: lutecium
• Slovene: lutecij (sl)
• Spanish: lutecio (es) m
• Swedish: lutetium (sv)
• Tajik: lyuteci'
• Tamil: மிளிரியம் (miḷiriyam)
• Thai: ลูทีเชียม (luu-tii-chîiam)
• Turkish: lütesyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: люте́цій m (ljutécij)
• Uzbek: lyutetsiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: Luteti
• Volapük: lutetin (vo)
• Welsh: lwtetiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: lutetium

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Lu
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Noun

lutetium (uncountable)

1. lutetium

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Danish

Noun

lutetium

1. lutetium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Lu
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Pronunciation

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Noun

lutetium n (uncountable)

1. lutetium

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Finnish

Noun

lutetium

1. lutetium

Declension

Inflection of lutetium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		lutetium	lutetiumit
genitive		lutetiumin	lutetiumien
partitive		lutetiumia	lutetiumeja
illative		lutetiumiin	lutetiumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		lutetium	lutetiumit
accusative	nom.	lutetium	lutetiumit
	gen.	lutetiumin
genitive		lutetiumin	lutetiumien
partitive		lutetiumia	lutetiumeja
inessive		lutetiumissa	lutetiumeissa
elative		lutetiumista	lutetiumeista
illative		lutetiumiin	lutetiumeihin
adessive		lutetiumilla	lutetiumeilla
ablative		lutetiumilta	lutetiumeilta
allative		lutetiumille	lutetiumeille
essive		lutetiumina	lutetiumeina
translative		lutetiumiksi	lutetiumeiksi
instructive		—	lutetiumein
abessive		lutetiumitta	lutetiumeitta
comitative		—	lutetiumeineen

Possessive forms of lutetium (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	lutetiumini	lutetiumimme
2nd person	lutetiumisi	lutetiuminne
3rd person	lutetiuminsa

Anagrams

• lumettui

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luˈte.ti.um/, [ɫ̪ʊˈt̪ɛ.t̪i.ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈte.t͡si.um/, [luˈt̪ɛː.t͡si.um]

Noun

lutetium n (genitive lutetiī); second declension

1. lutetium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lutetium	lutetia
Genitive	lutetiī	lutetiōrum
Dative	lutetiō	lutetiīs
Accusative	lutetium	lutetia
Ablative	lutetiō	lutetiīs
Vocative	lutetium	lutetia

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Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ly˧ˈteː˨ʃɔ˧m]

Noun

lutetium n

1. (uncountable) lutetium
2. a part of lutetium

Inflection

Declension of lutetium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	lutetium	lutetia	lutetieke	lutetiekes
Genitive	lutetiums	lutetia	lutetiekes	lutetiekes
Locative	lutetieës	lutetieëser	lutetieëske	lutetieëskes
Dative¹	lutetiumme	—	lutetieke	—
Accusative¹	lutetium	—	lutetieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

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Malay

Chemical element
Lu
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Etymology

From English lutetium, from Latin Lutetia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lutetiom], [lutetiəm], [lutiʃəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

lutetium

1. lutetium (chemical element)