scandium

See also: Scandium

English

Chemical element
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Scandium dendrites and cube.

Etymology

From Scandia +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: skăn'dēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈskændi.əm/

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Noun

scandium (uncountable)

2. A metallic chemical element, atomic number 21, obtained from some uranium ores; it is a transition element.

Synonyms

• eka-boron

Derived terms

• scandium-45
• scandium chloride
• scandium fluoride
• scandium group
• scandium iodide
• scandium oxide
• scandium trichloride

 

Related terms

• scandia
• Scandinavia

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: skandium (af)
• Albanian: skandium ?
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} سَكَانْدِيُوم‎ m (sakandiyum)
• Armenian: սկանդիում (hy) (skandium)
• Asturian: escandiu (ast) m
• Basque: eskandio (eu)
• Belarusian: ска́ндый m (skándyj)
• Breton: skandiom ?
• Bulgarian: ска́ндий m (skándij)
• Catalan: escandi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鈧／钪 (zh) (kàng)

• Cornish: scandyum ?
• Czech: skandium (cs) ?
• Danish: skandium ?
• Dutch: scandium (nl) n
• Esperanto: skandio (eo)
• Estonian: skandium (et)
• Faroese: skandium n
• Finnish: skandium (fi)
• French: scandium (fr) m
• Friulian: scandi ?
• Galician: escandio (gl) m
• Georgian: სკანდიუმი (sḳandiumi)
• German: Skandium n, Scandium (de) n
• Greek: σκάνδιο (el) n (skándio)
• Hawaiian: kaniuma
• Hebrew: סקנדיום‎ (he) m (skandium)
• Hindi: स्तोकातु ? (stokātu)
• Hungarian: szkandium (hu)
• Icelandic: skandín (is) n
• Interlingua: scandium
• Irish: scaindiam (ga) m
• Italian: scandio (it) m
• Japanese: スカンジウム (ja) (sukanjiumu)
• Kashubian: skónd
• Kazakh: скандий (skandii)
• Khmer: ស្កង់ដ្យូម (skɑngdyoum)
• Korean: 스칸듐 (ko) (seukandyum)
• Latin: scandium (la) n
• Latvian: skandijs ?
• Lingala: sekandu class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: skandis (lt) ?
• Luxembourgish: Skandium ?
• Macedonian: скандиум m (skandium)
• Malay: skandium
• Maltese: skandju m
• Manx: scandjum ?
• Mongolian: сканди (skandi)
• Norwegian: scandium (no) ?
• Occitan: escandi (oc) m
• Polish: skand (pl) m
• Portuguese: escândio (pt) m
• Romanian: scandiu (ro) n
• Russian: ска́ндий (ru) m (skándij)
• Scottish Gaelic: scandium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ска̑ндӣј m, скандиjум m

  Roman: skȃndīj (sh) m, skandijum m

• Slovak: skandium ?
• Slovene: skandij (sl) ?
• Spanish: escandio (es) m
• Swedish: skandium (sv) n
• Tajik: skandi'
• Tamil: ஸ்கண்டியம் (skaṇṭiyam)
• Thai: สแคนเดียม (sakhaendiam)
• Turkish: skandiyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ска́ндій m (skándij)
• Uzbek: skandiy (uz)
• Vietnamese: scandi
• Welsh: scandiwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: scandium ?

Anagrams

• muscadin

Danish

Alternative forms

• skandium (obsolete)

Noun

scandium

1. scandium

Dutch

Chemical element
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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin scandium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɑn.di.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: scan‧di‧um

Noun

scandium n (uncountable)

1. scandium (chemical element)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.djɔm/

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Noun

scandium m (uncountable)

1. scandium

Descendants

• → Lingala: sekandu

Further reading

• “scandium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Chemical element
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Etymology

Coined in 1869 by chemist Lars Fredrik Nilson, derived from Scandia (“Scandinavia”) +‎ -ium (chemical element suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/, [ˈs̠kän̪d̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/, [ˈskän̪d̪ium]

Noun

scandium n (genitive scandiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) scandium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scandium	scandia
Genitive	scandiī	scandiōrum
Dative	scandiō	scandiīs
Accusative	scandium	scandia
Ablative	scandiō	scandiīs
Vocative	scandium	scandia