palladium
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA(key): /pəˈleɪdiəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epiteth used before Athena.
Noun
palladium (plural palladia)
- A safeguard.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]
- 1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, 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.
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Noun
palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
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Afrikaans
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Next: silwer (Ag) |
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
palladium (uncountable)
Danish
Noun
palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)
Dutch
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English palladium.
Noun
palladium n (uncountable)
- palladium (element)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).
Noun
palladium n (plural palladia)
- (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.
- Het is toch algemeen aangenomen , dat Universiteiten de palladia der geleerdheid en beschaving zijn ; […]
- It is after all commonly assumed that universities are the palladia of learnedness and civilisation; […]
- 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
Etymology
Internationalism (see English palladium), ultimately from Latin Palladium.
Pronunciation
Noun
palladium
Declension
Inflection of palladium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | palladium | — | |
genitive | palladiumin | — | |
partitive | palladiumia | — | |
illative | palladiumiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | palladium | — | |
accusative | nom. | palladium | — |
gen. | palladiumin | ||
genitive | palladiumin | — | |
partitive | palladiumia | — | |
inessive | palladiumissa | — | |
elative | palladiumista | — | |
illative | palladiumiin | — | |
adessive | palladiumilla | — | |
ablative | palladiumilta | — | |
allative | palladiumille | — | |
essive | palladiumina | — | |
translative | palladiumiksi | — | |
abessive | palladiumitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading
- “palladium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
Pronunciation
Noun
palladium m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “palladium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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Pd | |
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Next: argentum (Ag) |
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈlʲäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈläːd̪ium]
Noun
palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension
- 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).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | palladium | palladia |
Genitive | palladiī | palladiōrum |
Dative | palladiō | palladiīs |
Accusative | palladium | palladia |
Ablative | palladiō | palladiīs |
Vocative | palladium | palladia |
Limburgish
Pronunciation
Noun
palladium n
- (uncountable) palladium
- a part of palladium
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.
Noun
palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)
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)
Etymology 2
Noun
palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)
References
- “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
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Pd | |
Previous: rodium (Rh) | |
Next: silver (Ag) |
Pronunciation
Noun
palladium n (uncountable)
Declension
Declension of palladium | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | palladium | palladiumet | — | — |
Genitive | palladiums | palladiumets | — | — |
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