different between sodium vs spodium

English

Etymology

Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from soda +? -ium, "soda" being from Italian soda, which may be from Arabic ???????? (suww?d, “saltwort”) or Arabic ??????????? (suwayd??, “Suaeda”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??.d??m/
• (US) enPR: s??d?-?m, IPA^(key): /?so?.di.?m/
• Rhymes: -??di?m

Noun

sodium (usually uncountable, plural sodiums)

2. The chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977. It is a soft, waxy, silvery, reactive alkali metal that is never found unbound in nature.

Synonyms

• natrium (rare)

Derived terms

Related terms

• soda

Translations

References

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

See also

• amphibole
• borax
• Chile saltpeter, Chile saltpetre
• cryolite
• halite
• natron
• salt
• zeolite

Anagrams

• modius, odiums

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.dj?m/

Noun

sodium m (uncountable)

1. sodium

Derived terms

• hydroxyde de sodium

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Latin spodium

Noun

spodium (uncountable)

1. bone charcoal, used as bleaching material or in the purification of sugar.

Anagrams

• podiums

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (spódion).

Noun

spodium n (genitive spodi? or spod?); second declension

1. ash, cinder
2. metal slag

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Albanian: shpuzë
  • Aromanian: spuzã
  • Romanian: spuz?

See also

• cinis

References

• spodium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spodium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• spodium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette