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cobalt
English
Etymology
From German Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German (see Kobold for more).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??.b?lt/
- (US) enPR: k?'bält, IPA(key): /?ko?.b?lt/
Noun
cobalt (usually uncountable, plural cobalts)
- A chemical element (symbol Co) with an atomic number of 27: a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal.
- Cobalt blue.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- asbolan, asbolite
- erythrite
- glaucodot
- skutterudite
- smaltine
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ko?balt/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ku?bal/
Noun
cobalt m (uncountable)
- cobalt
Further reading
- “cobalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cobalt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “cobalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cobalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Alternative forms
- kobolt (official spelling)
- kobalt
Noun
cobalt c (singular definite cobalten, not used in plural form)
cobalt n (singular definite cobaltet, not used in plural form)
- cobalt
Further reading
- “cobalt” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.balt/
Noun
cobalt m (plural cobalts)
- cobalt
Further reading
- “cobalt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Occitan
Pronunciation
Noun
cobalt m (uncountable)
- cobalt
Romanian
Etymology
From French cobalt or German Kobalt, from German Kobold (“goblin”), from Middle High German.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kobalt/
- Hyphenation: co?balt
Noun
cobalt n (uncountable)
- cobalt (chemical element)
Declension
References
- cobalt in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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kobold
English
Alternative forms
- cobold
Etymology
From German Kobold.
Noun
kobold (plural kobolds)
- (German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
- 1904, Andrew Lang (collector), author and translator not identified, The Mermaid and the Boy, The Brown Fairy Book, page 176,
- At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'
- 2009, Robert Grant Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton, page 75,
- Movers, in the first chapter of his Phönizier, says that that group of deities called Dactyls, Cabiri, Corybantes, and Cyclopes, were similar to those old Germanic divinities now known as Kobolds.
- 1904, Andrew Lang (collector), author and translator not identified, The Mermaid and the Boy, The Brown Fairy Book, page 176,
- (German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
- a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
- The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation; […] .
- 1977, James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England, 2007, page 138,
- Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.
- 2011, William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves, unnumbered page,
- In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
- a. 1867, George MacDonald, The Shadows, 2000 [1980], The Golden Key and Other Stories, page 96,
- (fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.
- 2005, Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars, page 62,
- There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds, green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.
- 2005, Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars, page 62,
Synonyms
- (hostile supernatural creature): See goblin
Translations
See also
- cobalt
Dutch
Etymology
18th century. Borrowed from German Kobold. Doublette with kabouter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ko?.b?lt/
- Hyphenation: ko?bold
Noun
kobold m (plural kobolden, diminutive koboldje n, feminine koboldin)
- kobold
- 1789, Justus Christiaan Hennings (= Justus Christian Hennings), Onzydige en beproefde gedagten, over de leer aangaande geesten en geesten-zieners, vol. 3, tr. from German, Arend Fokke Simonszoon (publ.), page 324.
- Ik kan my heel wél te binnen brengen, dat deze perzoonen, naderhand, veel geruster en veiliger hebben huisgehouden, toen het eens was beslist, dat Spooken en Kobolden by hen niet wierden aangenomen.
- 1873, R. R. Rijkens, De reiziger. Aardrijkskundige beschrijvingen en schilderingen. Leesboek voor de hoogste klasse der lagereschool, J. B. Wolters (3rd revised ed.), page 94.
- Het volk in de nabijheid der hooge bergmeren gelooft nog aan allerlei kobolden, elfen, nikkers, water- en berggeesten.
- 1789, Justus Christiaan Hennings (= Justus Christian Hennings), Onzydige en beproefde gedagten, over de leer aangaande geesten en geesten-zieners, vol. 3, tr. from German, Arend Fokke Simonszoon (publ.), page 324.
Related terms
- kabouter
- kobalt
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?kobold]
- Hyphenation: ko?bold
- Rhymes: -old
Noun
kobold (plural koboldok)
- kobold
Declension
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