promethium

See also: Promethium and prométhium

English

Chemical element
Pm
Previous: neodymium (Nd)
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

• promethate
• promethium chloride
• promethiumlike
• promethium nitrate
• radiopromethium

Related terms

• promethea
• promethean
• Prometheus

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: prometium (af)
• Albanian: promet
• Arabic: بُرُومِثِيُوم m (burūmiṯiyūm)
• Armenian: պրոմեթիում (prometʻium)
• 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: promethium

• 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

  Latin: 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

Danish

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

Alternative forms

• prometium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Προμηθεύς (Promētheús) +‎ -ium.

Noun

promethium n (singular definite promethiummet, not used in plural form)

1. promethium

Declension

Declension of promethium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	promethium	promethiummet
genitive	promethiums	promethiummets

References

• “promethium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

promethium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. promethium

Latin

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prɔˈmeː.tʰi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [proˈmɛː.ti.um]

Noun

promēthium n (genitive promēthiī); second declension

1. promethium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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