scandium

Scandia +‎ -ium

• enPR: skăn'dēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈskændi.əm/

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scandium (uncountable)

1. A metallic chemical element, atomic number 21, obtained from some uranium ores; it is a transition element.

• eka-boron (name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of scandium in his periodic table)

• muscadin

• skandium (obsolete)

scandium

1. scandium

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scandium n (uncountable)

1. scandium

• IPA^(key): /skɑ̃.djɔm/

scandium m (uncountable)

1. scandium

• Lingala: sekandu

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

Coined in 1869 by chemist Lars Fredrik Nilson, derived from Scandia (“Scandinavia”) +‎ -ium (“chemical element suffix”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/, [ˈskan.di.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskan.di.um/

scandium n (genitive scandiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) scandium

Second declension.