promethium

See also: Promethium and prométhium

English

Chemical element
Pm
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Next: samarium (Sm)

Alternative forms

• prometheum (formerly)

Etymology

1945. From the name of the Greek god Prometheus, who stole the fire from Mount Olympus and brought it down to mankind +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: prōmē'thēəm, IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈmiːθiəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

promethium (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Pm) with an atomic number of 61.

Synonyms

• (metallic element): (disused) cyclonium, (disused) florentium, (disused) illinium

Derived terms

• promethium chloride
• promethium nitrate

Related terms

• promethea
• promethean
• Prometheus

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: prometium (af)
• Albanian: promet
• Arabic: بْرُومِيثْيُوم‎ m (brumiṯyum)
• Armenian: պրոմեթիում (prometʿium)
• Asturian: prometiu (ast) m
• Basque: prometioa
• Belarusian: праме́тый m (pramjétyj)
• Breton: prometiom (br)
• Bulgarian: проме́тий m (prométij)
• Catalan: prometi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉕／钷 (zh) (pǒ)

• Cornish: promethyum
• Czech: promethium (cs) n
• Danish: promethium (da) n
• Dutch: promethium (nl) n
• Esperanto: prometio (eo)
• Estonian: promeetium (et)
• Faroese: prometium n
• Finnish: prometium (fi)
• French: prométhium (fr) m, prométhéum (fr) m
• Friulian: prometi
• Galician: prometio (gl) m
• Georgian: პრომეთიუმი (ṗrometiumi)
• German: Promethium (de) n
• Greek: προμήθιο n (promíthio)
• Hebrew: פרומתיום‎ (he) (prométyum)
• Hindi: पिविरला (pivirlā)
• Hungarian: prométium (hu)
• Icelandic: prómetín (is)
• Indonesian: promethium
• Irish: próméitiam
• Italian: promezio (it) m
• Japanese: プロメチウム (ja) (puromechiumu)
• Kashubian: promet
• Kazakh: прометий (prometii)
• Khmer: ប្រូមេចូម (proumeicoum)
• Korean: 프로메튬 (ko) (peurometyum)
• Latin: prometium
• Latvian: prometijs
• Lithuanian: prometis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Promethium
• Macedonian: прометиум m (prometium)
• Malay: prometium
• Maltese: promizjum
• Manx: promaiçhum
• Mongolian: промети (prometi)
• Norwegian: promethium
• Polish: promet (pl) m
• Portuguese: promécio (pt) m
• Romanian: promețiu (ro) n
• Russian: проме́тий (ru) m (prométij)
• Scottish Gaelic: promèitiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прометиjум, прометиj

  Roman: prometijum, prometij (sh)

• Slovak: prométium n
• Slovene: prometij (sl)
• Spanish: promecio m
• Swedish: prometium (sv) n
• Tajik: прометий (prometiy)
• Thai: โพรมีเทียม (proo-mii-tîiam)
• Turkish: prometyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: проме́тій m (prométij)
• Uzbek: prometiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: prometi
• Volapük: prometin (vo)
• Welsh: promethiwm
• West Frisian: promethium

Danish

Noun

promethium

1. promethium

Dutch

Chemical element
Pm
Previous: neodymium (Nd)
Next: samarium (Sm)

Pronunciation

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Noun

promethium n (uncountable)

1. promethium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /proˈmeː.tʰi.um/, [prɔˈmeːt̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈme.ti.um/, [proˈmɛːt̪ium]

Noun

promēthium n (genitive promēthiī); second declension

1. promethium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	promēthium	promēthia
Genitive	promēthiī	promēthiōrum
Dative	promēthiō	promēthiīs
Accusative	promēthium	promēthia
Ablative	promēthiō	promēthiīs
Vocative	promēthium	promēthia

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɘʁˈmeː˨ðɖɔ˧m]

Noun

promethium n

1. (uncountable) promethium
2. A part of promethium

Inflection

Declension of promethium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	promethium	promethia	promethieke	promethiekes
Genitive	promethiums	promethia	promethiekes	promethiekes
Locative	promethieës	promethieëser	promethieëske	promethieëskes
Dative¹	promethiumme	—	promethieke	—
Accusative¹	promethium	—	promethieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.