different between palladium vs vincentite

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?l?'d??m, IPA^(key): /p??le?di?m/

Etymology 1

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek ????????? (Palládion), from ?????? (Pallás), an alternative name for Athena.

Noun

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.

   • The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

   • 1967 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), translated by Walter Kaufman in 1967

     The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.

Translations

Etymology 2

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

Noun

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Pallas

Translations

Afrikaans

Noun

palladium (uncountable)

1. palladium

Danish

Noun

palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)

1. palladium

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??la?.di.?m/
• Hyphenation: pal?la?di?um

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English palladium.

Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium (element)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).

Noun

palladium n (plural palladia)

1. (archaic) palladium, safeguard (something that guarantees protection)
   • 1849, Petrus Hofstede de Groot, Is bezuiniging op het Onderwijs, voor al door opheffing eener Hoogeschool, aan te raden?, publ. by C. M. van Bolhuis Hoitsema, page 33.

Finnish

Noun

palladium

1. palladium

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.dj?m/

Noun

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (palládion), neuter of ????????? (palládios), ?????? (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pal?la.di.um/, [päl??l?äd?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pal?la.di.um/, [p?l?l??d?ium]

Noun

palladium n (genitive palladi?); second declension

1. palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??la?????m]

Noun

palladium n

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

Inflection

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

References

• “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

Etymology 2

Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)

1. palladium, safeguard

References

• “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?l??d??m/

Noun

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

Declension

English

Etymology

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Noun

vincentite

1. (mineralogy) A monoclinic gray mineral containing antimony, arsenic, palladium, platinum, and tellurium.

References

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Vincentite”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database