vanadium

See also: Vanadium and vanádium

English

Chemical element
V
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Etymology

Vanadis, a name of the goddess Freyja, +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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
• 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: فَنَادْيُوم m (fanadyum)
• 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
• Slovene: vanadij (sl)
• Spanish: vanadio (es) m
• Swahili: vanadi
• Swedish: vanadin (sv) n
• Tagalog: banadyo
• Tajik: vanadi'
• Tamil: பழீயம் (paḻīyam)
• 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
Previous: titaan (Ti)
Next: chroom (Cr)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

vanadium (uncountable)

1. vanadium

Danish

Noun

vanadium

1. vanadium

Declension

Declension of vanadium

neuter gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	vanadium	vanadiummet
genitive	vanadiums	vanadiummets

Dutch

Chemical element
V
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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)

1. vanadium (chemical element)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.na.djɔm/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Chemical element
V
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Next: chromium (Cr)

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse Vanadis, (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 Dis (from dís (“goddess”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯aˈna.di.um/, [u̯äˈnäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vaˈna.di.um/, [väˈnäːd̪ium]

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

Chemical element
V
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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

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

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.