polonium

See also: Polonium and polónium

English

Chemical element
Po	Previous: bismuth (Bi)
	Next: astatine (At)

Etymology

From New Latin polonium, from Medieval Latin Polonia (“Poland”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəˈləʊni.əm/
• (US) enPR: pəlōʹnēəm, IPA^(key): /pəˈloʊni.əm/
• Rhymes: -əʊniəm

Noun

polonium (usually uncountable, plural poloniums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Po) with atomic number 84.

Derived terms

• eka-polonium
• polane
• polonium hydride

Related terms

• Poland

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: polonium (af)
• Albanian: polonium
• Arabic: بُولُونْيُوم‎ m (bulunyum)
• Armenian: պոլոնիում (hy) (polonium)
• Asturian: poloniu m
• Basque: polonioa
• Belarusian: пало́нiй m (palónij)
• Breton: poloniom
• Bulgarian: поло́ний m (polónij)
• Catalan: poloni (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釙 (zh), 钋 (zh) (pō)

• Cornish: polonyum
• Czech: polonium (cs) n
• Danish: polonium (da) n
• Dutch: polonium (nl) n
• Esperanto: polonio (eo)
• Estonian: poloonium (et)
• Faroese: polonium n
• Finnish: polonium (fi)
• French: polonium (fr) m
• Friulian: poloni
• Galician: polonio (gl) m
• Georgian: პოლონიუმი (ṗoloniumi)
• German: Polonium (de) n
• Greek: πολώνιο (el) n (polónio)
• Hebrew: פולוניום‎ (he) (polonyum)
• Hindi: तोयातु (toyaatu)
• Hungarian: polónium (hu)
• Icelandic: pólon (is)
• Irish: polóiniam
• Italian: polonio (it) m
• Japanese: ポロニウム (ja) (poroniumu)
• Kashubian: pòlón
• Kazakh: полоний (polonïy)
• Korean: 폴로늄 (ko) (pollonyum)

• Latin: polonium (la)
• Latvian: polonijs
• Lithuanian: polonis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Polonium
• Macedonian: полониум m (polonium)
• Malay: polonium
• Maltese: polonju
• Manx: polonium
• Mongolian: полони (poloni)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: polonium n

  Nynorsk: polonium (nn) n

• Persian: پلونیوم‎ (polōniyum)
• Polish: polon (pl) m
• Portuguese: polónio (pt) m
• Romanian: poloniu (ro) n
• Russian: поло́ний (ru) m (polónij)
• Scottish Gaelic: polòiniam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полониjум m, полониj m

  Roman: polonijum m, polonij (sh) m

• Slovak: polonium n
• Slovene: polonij (sl) m
• Spanish: polonio (es) m
• Swedish: polonium (sv) n
• Tajik: полоний (poloniy)
• Tamil: அனலியம் (aṉaliyam)
• Thai: พอโลเนียม (pɔɔ-loo-nîiam)
• Turkish: polonyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: поло́нiй m (polónij)
• Uzbek: poloniy (uz), полоний (uz) (poloniy)
• Vietnamese: poloni
• Volapük: polonin (vo)
• Welsh: poloniwm (cy)
• West Frisian: polonium

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Afrikaans

Chemical element
Po	Previous: bismut (Bi)
	Next: astaat (At)

Noun

polonium (uncountable)

1. polonium

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Danish

Noun

polonium

1. polonium

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Dutch

Chemical element
Po	Previous: bismut (Bi)
	Next: astaat (At)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

polonium n (uncountable)

1. polonium

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Finnish

Noun

polonium

1. polonium

Declension

Inflection of polonium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		polonium	poloniumit
genitive		poloniumin	poloniumien
partitive		poloniumia	poloniumeja
illative		poloniumiin	poloniumeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		polonium	poloniumit
accusative	nom.	polonium	poloniumit
	gen.	poloniumin
genitive		poloniumin	poloniumien
partitive		poloniumia	poloniumeja
inessive		poloniumissa	poloniumeissa
elative		poloniumista	poloniumeista
illative		poloniumiin	poloniumeihin
adessive		poloniumilla	poloniumeilla
ablative		poloniumilta	poloniumeilta
allative		poloniumille	poloniumeille
essive		poloniumina	poloniumeina
translative		poloniumiksi	poloniumeiksi
instructive		—	poloniumein
abessive		poloniumitta	poloniumeitta
comitative		—	poloniumeineen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.lɔ.njɔm/

Noun

polonium m (uncountable)

1. polonium

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /poˈloː.ni.um/, [pɔˈɫoː.ni.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /poˈlo.ni.um/, [poˈloː.ni.um]

Noun

polōnium n (genitive polōniī); second declension

1. polonium

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	polōnium	polōnia
Genitive	polōniī	polōniōrum
Dative	polōniō	polōniīs
Accusative	polōnium	polōnia
Ablative	polōniō	polōniīs
Vocative	polōnium	polōnia

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Malay

Chemical element
Po	Previous: timah wurung (Bi)
	Next: astatin (At)

Etymology

From English polonium, from Latin Polonia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [poloniom], [poloniəm], [pəloniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

polonium

1. polonium (chemical element)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From New Latin polonium, from Medieval Latin Polonia

Noun

polonium n (definite singular poloniumet, uncountable)

1. polonium, chemical symbol Po

References

• “polonium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “polonium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From New Latin polonium, from Medieval Latin Polonia

Noun

polonium n (definite singular poloniumet, uncountable)

1. polonium, chemical symbol Po

References

• “polonium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Noun

polonium n (uncountable)

1. polonium

Declension

Declension of polonium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	polonium	poloniumet	—	—
Genitive	poloniums	poloniumets	—	—