scandium

See also: Scandium

English

Chemical element (edit)
Sc Atomic number 21 scandium
Classification data Period 4 Group 3 Block d-block Class transition metal
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English Wikipedia article on Scandium

Scandium dendrites and cube.

Etymology

Etymology tree

English Scandia

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Italic *-om

Latin -umder.

English -ium

English scandium

From Scandia + -ium.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General American):

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Noun

scandium (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• eka-boron

Derived terms

• discandium
• organoscandium
• radioscandium
• scandian
• scandic
• scandium-45
• scandium chloride
• scandium fluoride
• scandium group
• scandium iodide
• scandiumlike
• scandium oxide
• scandium trichloride

Related terms

• scandia
• Scandinavia

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: skandium (af)
• Albanian: skandium ?
• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} سَكَانْدِيُوم m (sakāndiyūm)
• 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: skandiom m
• 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: scandium ?

• 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 m
• 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:

  Bokmål: scandium (no) n

• 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

  Latin: skȃndīj (sh) m, skandijum m

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

Anagrams

• muscadin

Danish

Chemical element (edit)
Sc Atomic number 21 scandium
Classification data Period 4 Group 3 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Etymology

From Latin Scandia +‎ -ium.

Noun

scandium n (singular definite scandiummet, not used in plural form)

1. scandium

Declension

Declension of scandium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	scandium	scandiummet
genitive	scandiums	scandiummets

References

• “scandium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Chemical element (edit)
Sc Atomic number 21 scandium
Classification data Period 4 Group 3 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin scandium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɑn.di.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: scan‧di‧um

Noun

scandium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. scandium (chemical element)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.djɔm/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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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 (edit)
Sc Atomic number 21 scandium
Classification data Period 4 Group 3 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Next: titanium (Ti) →

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskan.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈskan.di.um]

Noun

scandium n (genitive scandiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) scandium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	scandium	scandia
genitive	scandiī	scandiōrum
dative	scandiō	scandiīs
accusative	scandium	scandia
ablative	scandiō	scandiīs
vocative	scandium	scandia