cadmia
English
Etymology
From Latin cadmia (“calamine”), from Ancient Greek καδμεία (kadmeía, “calamine”). Compare calamine.
Noun
cadmia (uncountable)
- (mineralogy, obsolete) An oxide of zinc that collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral
- (mineralogy, obsolete) Calamine.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cadmia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Italian
Latin
Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek κᾰδμείᾱ, κᾰδμήᾱ, κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmeíā, kadmḗā, kadmíā, “calamine”).
Noun
cadmī̆a f (genitive cadmī̆ae); first declension
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cadmī̆a | cadmī̆ae |
Genitive | cadmī̆ae | cadmī̆ārum |
Dative | cadmī̆ae | cadmī̆īs |
Accusative | cadmī̆am | cadmī̆ās |
Ablative | cadmī̆ā | cadmī̆īs |
Vocative | cadmī̆a | cadmī̆ae |
Descendants
- English: cadmia
References
- cadmī̆a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1 cadmēa (-mīa ou -mĭa) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “235/2”
Etymology 2
Regularly conjugated forms of cadmium.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkad.mi.a/
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