different between cadmia vs cadmium

English

Etymology

From Latin cadmia (“calamine”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kadmeía, “calamine”). Compare calamine.

Noun

cadmia (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete) An oxide of zinc that collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral
2. (mineralogy, obsolete) Calamine.

Anagrams

• Adamic

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cadmias, cadmiât

Verb

cadmia

1. third-person singular past historic of cadmier

Italian

Verb

cadmia

1. third-person singular present indicative of cadmiare
2. second-person singular imperative of cadmiare

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ???????, ??????, ??????? (kadmeí?, kadm??, kadmí?, “calamine”).

Alternative forms

• cadm?a
• (Medieval) calam?na

Pronunciation

cadm?a

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kad?mi?.a/, [käd??mi?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kad?mi.a/, [k?d??mi??]

cadm?a

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.a/, [?käd?miä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.a/, [?k?d?mi?]

Noun

cadm??a f (genitive cadm??ae); first declension

1. an ore of zinc, calamine, cadmia
2. the dross or slag formed in a furnace

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: cadmia

References

• cadm??a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 cadm?a (-m?a ou -m?a) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “235/2”

Etymology 2

Regularly conjugated forms of cadmium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.a/, [?käd?miä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.a/, [?k?d?mi?]

Noun

cadmia n

1. nominative plural of cadmium
2. accusative plural of cadmium
3. vocative plural of cadmium

English

Etymology

1817, from Ancient Greek ??????? (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king ?????? (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?d'm??m, IPA^(key): /?kædmi?m/
• Hyphenation: cad?mi?um

Noun

cadmium (countable and uncountable, plural cadmiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• greenockite
• itai-itai disease

Danish

Alternative forms

• kadmium

Noun

cadmium

1. cadmium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Cadmium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?t.mi.?m/
• Hyphenation: cad?mi?um

Noun

cadmium n (uncountable)

1. cadmium [from late 1810s]

Derived terms

• cadmiumgeel

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kad.mj?m/

Noun

cadmium m (uncountable)

1. cadmium

Further reading

• “cadmium” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.um/, [?käd?mi???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kad.mi.um/, [?k?d?mium]

Noun

cadmium n (genitive cadmi?); second declension

1. cadmium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).