different between gymnite vs magnesium

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ?????? (gumnós) +? -ite

Noun

gymnite (usually uncountable, plural gymnites)

1. (mineralogy) An amorphous form of antigorite.

English

Etymology

From New Latin magn?sium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (magn?sía), after ???????? (Magn?sía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?gn?'z??m, IPA^(key): /?mæ??ni?zi.?m/
• (US) enPR: m?gn?'z??m, IPA^(key): /?mæ??nizi.?m/; enPR: m?gn?'zh?m, IPA^(key): /?mæ??ni??m/
• Hyphenation: mag?ne?si?um

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

2. The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
   • 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

     The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Magnesium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• artinite
• Birmabright
• bischofite
• brucite
• carnallite
• deweylite
• epsomite
• gymnite
• kieserite
• lansfordite
• nesquehonite
• nigari
• olivine
• sellaite
• talc

Anagrams

• mesangium

Afrikaans

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??ne.sium/, [ma???ne???m]

Noun

magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) magnesium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin magnesium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?x?ne?.zi.?m/
• Hyphenation: mag?ne?si?um

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Derived terms

• magnesiumpoeder

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??ne(?)s(?)ium/, [?m??ne?(?)(s?)?s?ium]
• IPA^(key): /?m??ne(?)s(?)ium/, [?m??ne?(?)(s?)?s?ium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification: ma??ne?si?um

Noun

magnesium

1. magnesium

Declension

Interlingua

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma??ne?.si.um/, [mä??ne?s?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma???e.si.um/, [m??????s?ium]

Etymology 1

Form of magn?sius.

Adjective

magn?sium

1. nominative neuter singular of magn?sius
2. accusative masculine singular of magn?sius
3. accusative neuter singular of magn?sius
4. vocative neuter singular of magn?sius

Etymology 2

Substantivization of the neuter form of magn?sius (“of or pertaining to the region of Magnesia”).

Noun

magn?sium n (genitive magn?si?); second declension

1. (New Latin) magnesium (chemical element 12)
   • 1782, D. Laurentius & Gulielmo Huntero, "Nova experimenta Chemica quae ad penitiorem Acidi e Pinguedine eruti cognitionem valere videntur", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I, page 28

     Magnesium nitratum nullum conver?ionem expertum e?t a no?tri acidi admixtione.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• Magn?sia
• magn?sius

Descendants

• English: magnesium
• Galician: magnesio
• Italian: magnesio
• Portuguese: magnésio
• Spanish: magnesio

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m????e?????m]

Noun

magnesium n

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

Inflection

Malay

Alternative forms

• ?????????

Etymology

From English magnesium, from New Latin magn?sium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maknesiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

magnesium (Jawi spelling ????????)

1. magnesium (chemical element)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian magnesium.

Noun

magn?sium

1. magnesium

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From magnesia +? -ium

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From magnesia +? -ium

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

• “magnesium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??ne?s??m/

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Declension