vanadium

See also: Vanadium and vanádium

English

Chemical element
V
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Etymology

Vanadis, a name of the goddess Freyja, +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vənā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /vəˈneɪdi.əm/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

vanadium (countable and uncountable, plural vanadiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol V) with atomic number 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

• panchromium (name proposed by the mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río)
• rionium (name proposed by the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh)

Derived terms

• ferrovanadium
• vanadate
• vanadian
• vanadiate
• vanadic
• vanadinite
• vanadious
• vanadite
• vanadium-50
• vanadium-51
• vanadium-associated protein
• vanadium bromoperoxidase
• vanadium carbide
• vanadium carbonyl
• vanadium chloride
• vanadium chromagen
• vanadium dichloride
• vanadium dioxide
• vanadium oxide
• vanadium oxytrichloride
• vanadium pentachloride
• vanadium pentoxide
• vanadium steel
• vanadium sulfide, vanadium sulphide
• vanadium tetrachloride
• vanadium tetraoxide
• vanadium trichloride
• vanadium trioxide
• vanadium trisulfate, vanadium trisulphate
• vanadocyte
• vanadous
• vanadyl

 

Related terms

• Vanadís

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: vanadium (af)
• Albanian: vanad
• Arabic: فَنَادْيُوم‎ m (fanadyum)
• Armenian: վանադիում (hy) (vanadium)
• Asturian: vanadiu (ast) m
• Basque: banadioa
• Belarusian: вана́дый m (vanádyj)
• Breton: vanadiom
• Bulgarian: вана́дий m (vanádij)
• Catalan: vanadi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釩／钒 (zh) (fán)

• Cornish: vanadyum
• Czech: vanad (cs)
• Danish: vanadium (da) n
• Dutch: vanadium (nl) n
• Esperanto: vanadio (eo)
• Estonian: vanaadium (et)
• Faroese: vanadium
• Finnish: vanadiini (fi)
• French: vanadium (fr) m
• Friulian: vanadi
• Galician: vanadio (gl) m
• Georgian: ვანადიუმი (vanadiumi)
• German: Vanadium (de) n
• Greek: βανάδιο (el) n (vanádio)
• Hebrew: ונדיום‎ (he) (vanádium)
• Hindi: रोचातु (rocātu)
• Hungarian: vanádium (hu)
• Icelandic: vanadín (is)
• Interlingua: vanadium
• Irish: vanaidiam (ga) m
• Italian: vanadio (it) m
• Japanese: バナジウム (ja) (banajiumu)
• Kashubian: wônôd
• Kazakh: ванадий (kk) (vanadii)
• Khmer: វ៉ាណាដ្យូម (vaanaadyoum)
• Korean: 바나듐 (ko) (banadyum)
• Latin: vanadium (la) n
• Latvian: vanādijs
• Lingala: vanadu class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: vanadis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Vanadium
• Malay: vanadium (ms)
• Maltese: vanadju
• Manx: vanaadjum
• Mongolian: ванади (vanadi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vanadium (no) n

  Nynorsk: vanadium (nn) n

• Occitan: vanadi m
• Polish: wanad (pl) m
• Portuguese: vanádio (pt) m
• Romanian: vanadiu (ro) n
• Russian: вана́дий (ru) m (vanádij)
• Scottish Gaelic: vanaidiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ванадијум m, ванадиј m

  Latin: vanadijum, vanadij (sh)

• Slovak: vanád
• Slovene: vanadij (sl)
• Spanish: vanadio (es) m
• Swahili: vanadi
• Swedish: vanadin (sv) n
• Tagalog: banadyo
• Tajik: vanadi'
• Tamil: பழீயம் (paḻīyam)
• Thai: วาเนเดียม (th) (waa-nee-dîiam)
• Turkish: vanadyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: вана́дій (uk) m (vanádij)
• Uzbek: ванадий (uz) (vanadiy)
• Vietnamese: vanađi
• Volapük: vanadin (vo)
• Welsh: fanadiwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: vanadium

See also

• carnotite
• patronite

Afrikaans

Chemical element
V
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Next: chroom (Cr)

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

vanadium (uncountable)

1. vanadium

Danish

Noun

vanadium

1. vanadium

Declension

Declension of vanadium

neuter gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vanadium	vanadiummet
genitive	vanadiums	vanadiummets

Dutch

Chemical element
V
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Next: chroom (Cr)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vanadium or Swedish vanadium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvaːˈnaː.di.ʏm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: va‧na‧di‧um

Noun

vanadium n (uncountable)

1. vanadium (chemical element)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.na.djɔm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

vanadium m (uncountable)

1. vanadium

Descendants

• Lingala: vanadu

Further reading

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

Latin

Chemical element
V
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Etymology

Derived from Old Norse Vanadis, (one of the names of Freyja, goddess of beauty) + -ium (chemical element suffix), in reference to the many beautifully colored chemical compounds it produces. The Norse name is a compound of the names Vana (from vanr (“lacking, missing”)) and Dis (from dís (“goddess”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈna.di.um/, [u̯äˈnäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈna.di.um/, [väˈnäːd̪ium]

Noun

vanadium n (genitive vanadiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) vanadium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vanadium	vanadia
Genitive	vanadiī	vanadiōrum
Dative	vanadiō	vanadiīs
Accusative	vanadium	vanadia
Ablative	vanadiō	vanadiīs
Vocative	vanadium	vanadia

References

• Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɑˈnaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

Noun

vanadium n

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

Inflection

Declension of vanadium

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	vanadium	vanadia	vanadieke	vanadiekes
Genitive	vanadiums	vanadia	vanadiekes	vanadiekes
Locative	vanadieës	vanadieëser	vanadieëske	vanadieëskes
Dative¹	vanadiumme	—	vanadieke	—
Accusative¹	vanadium	—	vanadieke	—
¹Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, the nominative is used instead.

Malay

Chemical element
V
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Next: kromium (Cr)

Etymology

From English vanadium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vanadiom], [vanadiəm], [vənediəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

vanadium

1. vanadium (chemical element)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

Noun

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

References

• “vanadium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “vanadium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

Noun

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

References

• “vanadium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.