tellurium

See also: Tellurium

English

Chemical element
Te
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Next: iodine (I)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭlyo͝or'ēəm, IPA^(key): /tɪˈljʊəɹiəm/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Etymology 1

Latin tellūs (“earth”) +‎ -ium

Noun

tellurium (countable and uncountable, plural telluriums)

1. (uncountable) The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

• sylvanium (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• chalcogen

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bismuthic tellurium
• bismuth-tellurium
• black tellurium
• foliated tellurium
• graphic tellurium
• tellur-, telluri-
• tellurane
• tellurate
• telluret
• tellureted, telluretted
• telluric
• telluride
• tellurious
• tellurise, tellurize
• tellurite
• tellurium-128
• tellurium-130
• tellurium bromide
• tellurium chloride
• tellurium dioxide
• tellurium glance
• tellurium hydride
• tellurium nitrate
• tellurium oxalate
• tellurium salt
• tellurium sulfate, tellurium sulphate
• tellurium sulfide, tellurium sulphide
• tellurium tetrachloride
• tellurium trioxide
• tellurous
• tellururet
• tetratellurium
• white tellurium
• yellow tellurium

Related terms

Related terms

• tellane
• tellural
• tellurian
• telluric (of the earth)
• tellurion
• tellurism
• tellurometer
• Tellus

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: telluur (af)
• Albanian: telur
• Arabic: تِيلُورِيُوم‎ m (tilūriyum)
• Armenian: տելուր (hy) (telur)
• Asturian: teluriu (ast) m
• Basque: telurioa
• Belarusian: тэлу́р m (telúr)
• Breton: telluriom
• Bulgarian: телу́р (bg) m (telúr)
• Catalan: tel·luri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碲 (zh) (dì)

• Cornish: teluryum
• Czech: tellur (cs)
• Danish: tellur (da)
• Dutch: telluur (nl) n, tellurium (nl) n
• Esperanto: teluro (eo)
• Estonian: telluur (et)
• Faroese: tellur n
• Finnish: telluuri (fi)
• French: tellure (fr) m
• Friulian: teluri
• Galician: telurio (gl)
• Georgian: ტელური (ṭeluri)
• German: Tellur (de) n
• Greek: τελλούριο (el) n (telloúrio)
• Hebrew: טלוריום‎ (teluryum)
• Hindi: वंगक (vaṅgak)
• Hungarian: tellúr (hu)
• Icelandic: tellúr (is)
• Irish: teallúiriam
• Italian: tellurio (it) m
• Japanese: テルル (ja) (teruru)
• Kashubian: tellur
• Korean: 텔루르 (ko) (tellureu), 텔루륨 (telluryum)
• Latin: tellurium (la)
• Latvian: telūrs
• Lithuanian: telūras (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Tellur
• Macedonian: телур (telur)
• Malay: telurium
• Maltese: tellurju
• Manx: çhellurium
• Mongolian: теллур (tellur)
• Norwegian: tellur
• Occitan: telluri m
• Polish: tellur (pl) m
• Portuguese: telúrio (pt) m
• Romanian: telur (ro) n
• Russian: теллу́р (ru) m (tellúr)
• Scottish Gaelic: teallùiriam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телур, телуриј

  Roman: telur (sh), telurij (sh)

• Slovak: telúr
• Slovene: telur (sl)
• Spanish: teluro (es) m
• Swedish: tellur (sv) n
• Tagalog: teluro
• Tajik: теллур (tg) (tellur)
• Tamil: வெண்கந்தகம் (veṇkantakam)
• Thai: เทลลูเรียม (teel-luu-rîiam)
• Turkish: tellür (tr)
• Ukrainian: телу́р m (telúr)
• Uzbek: tellur (uz), теллур (uz) (tellur)
• Vietnamese: telua, telu
• Volapük: telurin (vo)
• Welsh: telwriwm (cy)
• West Frisian: telluur

See also

• calaverite
• nagyagite
• sylvanite

Etymology 2

Latin tellus (“earth”).

Noun

tellurium

1. A variant spelling of tellurion.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Tellurium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tellurium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

Danish

Noun

tellurium

1. tellurium

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

tellurium n (uncountable)

1. tellurium

Synonyms

• telluur

Latin

Chemical element
Te
Previous: stibium (Sb)
Next: iodum (I)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /telˈluː.ri.um/, [t̪ɛlˈlʲuːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /telˈlu.ri.um/, [t̪elˈluːrium]

Noun

tellūrium n (genitive tellūriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) tellurium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tellūrium	tellūria
Genitive	tellūriī	tellūriōrum
Dative	tellūriō	tellūriīs
Accusative	tellūrium	tellūria
Ablative	tellūriō	tellūriīs
Vocative	tellūrium	tellūria

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurier, definite plural telluria or telluriene)

1. tellurion

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurium, definite plural telluria)

1. tellurion

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin tellūrium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛlˈlu.rjum/
• Rhymes: -urjum
• Syllabification: tel‧lu‧rium

Noun

tellurium n

1. (astronomy, historical) orrery, tellurion

Declension

Declension of tellurium

	singular	plural
nominative	tellurium	telluria
genitive	tellurium	telluriów
dative	tellurium	telluriom
accusative	tellurium	telluria
instrumental	tellurium	telluriami
locative	tellurium	telluriach
vocative	tellurium	telluria

Further reading

• tellurium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tellurium in Polish dictionaries at PWN