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English

Etymology

From New Latin kalium.

Noun

kalium (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Potassium.

Further reading

• kalium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mikula

Afrikaans

Noun

kalium (uncountable)

1. potassium

Danish

Noun

kalium n (singular definite kaliummet, not used in plural form)

1. potassium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kalium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.li.?m/
• Hyphenation: ka?li?um

Noun

kalium n (uncountable)

1. potassium

Derived terms

• broomkalium
• kaliumbromide
• kaliumcarbonaat
• kaliumchloride
• kaliumzout
• lichaamskalium

Faroese

Etymology

From New Latin kalium.

Noun

kalium n (genitive singular kaliums, uncountable)

1. potassium

Declension

Finnish

Noun

kalium

1. potassium

Declension

Anagrams

• kulmia

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kalium, from Latin kalium.

Noun

kalium (first-person possessive kaliumku, second-person possessive kaliummu, third-person possessive kaliumnya)

1. potassium (the chemical element)

Interlingua

Noun

kalium (uncountable)

1. potassium

Latin

Etymology

From German Kalium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.li.um/, [?käli???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.li.um/, [?k??lium]

Noun

kalium n (genitive kali?); second declension

1. (New Latin) potassium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• English: kalium
• Translingual: K

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka?????m]

Noun

kalium n

1. (uncountable) potassium
2. a part of potassium

Inflection

Malay

Etymology

From Latin kalium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaliom], [kali?m], [keli?m]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

kalium

1. potassium (the chemical element)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian kalium.

Noun

kalium

1. potassium

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

Noun

kalium n (definite singular kaliumet) (uncountable)

1. potassium (element, chemical symbol K)

Derived terms

• kaliumhydroksid
• kaliumkarbonat
• kaliumnitrat

References

• “kalium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kalium n (definite singular kaliumet) (uncountable)

1. potassium (as above)

Derived terms

• kaliumhydroksid
• kaliumkarbonat
• kaliumnitrat

References

• “kalium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??l??m/

Noun

kalium n (uncountable)

1. potassium

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kalium.

Noun

kalium n (no plural)

1. potassium

Further reading

• “kalium”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1807, from potassa +? -ium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?t?s???m, IPA^(key): /p??tæsi?m/

Noun

potassium (usually uncountable, plural potassiums)

2. A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature; an element (symbol K) with an atomic number of 19 and atomic weight of 39.0983. The symbol is derived from the Latin kalium.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

• K?
• potash
• potass
• potassa

Translations

References

• Potassa and Potassium in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
• Potassium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• carnallite
• langbeinite
• polyhalite
• potash
• saltpeter, saltpetre
• sylvite

Anagrams

• assumptio

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.ta.sj?m/

Noun

potassium m (uncountable)

1. potassium

Descendants

• Lingala: potasu

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

potassium (uncountable)

1. potassium