vanadium

See also: Vanadium and vanádium

English

Chemical element
V
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Etymology

Mid 19th century, from New Latin vanadium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vənā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /vəˈneɪdi.əm/

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Noun

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vanadium

Wikipedia

vanadium (countable and uncountable, plural vanadiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol V) with atomic number 23; it is a transition metal, used in the production of special steels.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

• panchromium (name proposed by the mineralogist Andrés Manuel del Río)
• rionium (name proposed by the geologist George William Featherstonhaugh)

Derived terms

• ferrovanadium
• proto-vanadium
• vanadate
• vanadian
• vanadiate
• vanadic
• vanadinite
• vanadious
• vanadite
• vanadium-50
• vanadium-51
• vanadium-associated protein
• vanadium bromoperoxidase
• vanadium bronze
• vanadium carbide
• vanadium carbonyl
• vanadium chloride
• vanadium chromagen
• vanadium dichloride
• vanadium dioxide
• vanadium group
• vanadium oxide
• vanadium oxytrichloride
• vanadium pentachloride
• vanadium pentoxide
• vanadium steel
• vanadium sulfide, vanadium sulphide
• vanadium tetrachloride
• vanadium tetraoxide
• vanadium trichloride
• vanadium trioxide
• vanadium trisulfate, vanadium trisulphate
• vanadocyte
• vanadous
• vanadyl

Related terms

• Vanadís

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: vanadium (af) Albanian: vanad Arabic: فَنَادِيُوم m (fanādiyūm) or فَنَدْيُوم m (fanadyūm), وَنَدْيُوم m (wanadyūm) Armenian: վանադիում (hy) (vanadium) Asturian: vanadiu (ast) m Basque: banadioa Belarusian: вана́дый m (vanádyj) Breton: vanadiom Bulgarian: вана́дий m (vanádij) Catalan: vanadi (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 釩 / 钒 (zh) (fán) Cornish: vanadyum Czech: vanad (cs) Danish: vanadium (da) n Dutch: vanadium (nl) n Esperanto: vanadio (eo) Estonian: vanaadium (et) Faroese: vanadium Finnish: vanadiini (fi) French: vanadium (fr) m Friulian: vanadi Galician: vanadio (gl) m Georgian: ვანადიუმი (vanadiumi) German: Vanadium (de) n Greek: βανάδιο (el) n (vanádio) Hebrew: ונדיום (he) (vanádium) Hindi: रोचातु (rocātu) Hungarian: vanádium (hu) Icelandic: vanadín (is) Interlingua: vanadium Irish: vanaidiam (ga) m Italian: vanadio (it) m Japanese: バナジウム (ja) (banajiumu) Kashubian: wônôd Kazakh: ванадий (kk) (vanadii) Khmer: វ៉ាណាដ្យូម (vaanaadyoum) Korean: 바나듐 (ko) (banadyum) Latin: vanadium (la) n Latvian: vanādijs Lingala: vanadu class 9a/10a Lithuanian: vanadis (lt) Luxembourgish: Vanadium Malay: vanadium (ms) Maltese: vanadju Manx: vanaadjum Mongolian: ванади (vanadi) Norwegian: Bokmål: vanadium (no) n Nynorsk: vanadium (nn) n Occitan: vanadi m Polish: wanad (pl) m Portuguese: vanádio (pt) m Romanian: vanadiu (ro) n Russian: вана́дий (ru) m (vanádij) Scottish Gaelic: vanaidiam Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ванадијум m, ванадиј m Latin: vanadijum, vanadij (sh) Slovak: vanád (sk) Slovene: vanadij (sl) Spanish: vanadio (es) m Swahili: vanadi Swedish: vanadin (sv) n Tagalog: banadyo Tajik: vanadi' Tamil: பழீயம் (paḻīyam), வனேடியம் (ta) (vaṉēṭiyam) Thai: วาเนเดียม (th) (waa-nee-dîiam) Turkish: vanadyum (tr) Ukrainian: вана́дій (uk) m (vanádij) Uzbek: ванадий (uz) (vanadiy) Vietnamese: vanađi Volapük: vanadin (vo) Welsh: fanadiwm (cy) m West Frisian: vanadium

See also

• carnotite
• patronite

Afrikaans

Chemical element
V
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Next: chroom (Cr)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

vanadium (uncountable)

1. vanadium

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^da

Chemical element
V
Previous: titan (Ti)
Next: chrom (Cr)

Alternative forms

• vanadin

Etymology

From Old Norse Vanadís +‎ -ium. From New Latin vanadium.

Noun

vanadium n (singular definite vanadiummet, not used in plural form)

1. vanadium

Declension

Declension of vanadium

neuter gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vanadium	vanadiummet
genitive	vanadiums	vanadiummets

References

• “vanadium” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^nl

Chemical element
V
Previous: titanium (Ti)
Next: chroom (Cr)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin vanadium or Swedish vanadium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvaːˈnaː.di.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: va‧na‧di‧um

Noun

vanadium n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. vanadium (chemical element)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.na.djɔm/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Noun

vanadium m (uncountable)

1. vanadium

Descendants

• Lingala: vanadu

Further reading

• “vanadium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^la

Chemical element
V
Previous: titanium (Ti)
Next: chromium (Cr)

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse Vanadís, (one of the names of Freyja, goddess of beauty) + -ium (chemical element suffix), in reference to the many beautifully colored chemical compounds it produces. The Norse name is a compound of the names Vana (from vanr (“lacking, missing”)) and Dís (from dís (“goddess”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [waˈna.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vaˈnaː.di.um]

Noun

vanadium n (genitive vanadiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) vanadium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vanadium	vanadia
genitive	vanadiī	vanadiōrum
dative	vanadiō	vanadiīs
accusative	vanadium	vanadia
ablative	vanadiō	vanadiīs
vocative	vanadium	vanadia

References

• Rudolf Simek: Dictionary of Northern Mythology (1993)

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɑˈnaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

Noun

vanadium n

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

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
V
Previous: titanium (Ti)
Next: kromium (Cr)

Etymology

From English vanadium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vanadiom], [vanadiəm], [vənediəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

vanadium

1. vanadium (chemical element)

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

Noun

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

vanadium

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis, another name for the goddess Freyja (Norwegian Frøya).

Noun

vanadium n (definite singular vanadiumet, uncountable)

1. vanadium, chemical element, symbol V

References

• “vanadium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.