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From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.
- (UK) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA(key): /ˌmæɡˈniːzi.əm/
- (US) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA(key): /ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/; enPR: măgnē'zhəm, IPA(key): /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/
- Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um
magnesium (uncountable)
- The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
- 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.
- 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
- butylmagnesium
- calcium magnesium carbonate
- calcium magnesium silicate
- dimagnesium
- eumagnesemia
- ferromagnesium
- heptamagnesium
- hexamagnesium
- hydromagnesium
- mafic
- magnesaemia
- magnesemia
- magnesian
- magnesic
- magnesium-24
- magnesium-25
- magnesium-26
- magnesium alloy
- magnesium aluminate
- magnesium aluminium oxide, magnesium aluminum oxide
- magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate
- magnesium carbonate
- magnesium caseinate
- magnesium chlorate
- magnesium chloride
- magnesium chlorite
- magnesium citrate
- magnesium diboride
- magnesium diglutamate
- magnesium fluoride
- magnesium gallate
- magnesium hydroxide
- magnesium lactate
- magnesium lamp
- magnesium laureth sulfate, magnesium laureth sulphate
- magnesium light
- magnesiumlike
- magnesium mica
- magnesium nitrate
- magnesium nitride
- magnesium oxide
- magnesium perchlorate
- magnesium peroxide
- magnesium phosphate
- magnesium ribbon
- magnesium silicate
- magnesium stearate
- magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulphate
- magnesium sulfide, magnesium sulphide
- magnesium wire
- magnesuria
- magniferous
- manganoso-magnesium alum
- methylmagnesium
- nonamagnesium
- nonmagnesium
- normomagnesemia
- organomagnesium
- pentamagnesium
- potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate
- radiomagnesium
- sesquimagnesium
- sima
- tetramagnesium
- trimagnesium
- → Welsh: magnesiwm
chemical element
- Afrikaans: magnesium (af)
- Albanian: magneziumi
- Arabic: مَغْنِسْيُوم m (maḡnisyum)
- Armenian: մագնեզիում (hy) (magnezium)
- Asturian: magnesiu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: maqnezium
- Basque: magnesioa
- Belarusian: магній m (mahnij)
- Bengali: ম্যাগনেশিয়াম (bn) (mêgneśiẏam)
- Breton: magneziom m, magnesiom m
- Bulgarian: магне́зий (bg) m (magnézij)
- Catalan: magnesi (ca) m
- Cebuano: magnesium
- Chinese:
- Cornish: magnysyum ?
- Corsican: magnesiu m
- Czech: hořčík (cs) m
- Danish: magnesium (da) n
- Dhivehi: މެގްނީޒިއަމް (megnīziam̊)
- Dutch: magnesium (nl) n
- Esperanto: magnezio (eo)
- Estonian: magneesium (et)
- Faroese: magnesium n
- Finnish: magnesium (fi)
- French: magnésium (fr) m
- Friulian: magnesi ?
- Galician: magnesio (gl) m
- Georgian: მაგნიუმი (magniumi)
- German: Magnesium (de) n
- Greek: μαγνήσιο (el) n (magnísio)
- Haitian Creole: manyezyòm
- Hawaiian: makanekiuma
- Hebrew: מגנזיום (he) m (magnezium)
- Hindi: भ्राजातु m (bhrājātu)
- Hungarian: magnézium (hu)
- Icelandic: magnesín (is) n, magnín n, magníum n, magnesíum n
- Ido: magnezo (io)
- Indonesian: magnesium (id)
- Interlingua: magnesium
- Irish: maignéisiam (ga) m
- Italian: magnesio (it) m
- Japanese: マグネシウム (ja) (maguneshiumu), 苦土素 (kudoso)
- Javanese: magnesium
- Kannada: ಮ್ಯಗ್ನೀಶಿಯಮ್ (myagnīśiyam)
- Kashubian: magnéz m, magnez m
- Kazakh: магний (magnii)
- Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស៊ីយ៉ុម (maañeesiiyoom), ម៉ាញ៉េស្យូម (maañeesyoum)
- Korean: 마그네슘 (ko) (mageunesyum)
- Kurdish:
- Latin: magnesium (la) n
- Latvian: magnijs (lv) m
- Lingala: manezu class 9a/10a
- Lithuanian: magnis (lt) m
- Low German:
- Luxembourgish: Magnesium ?
- Macedonian: магнезиум m (magnezium)
- Malay: magnesium (ms)
- Malayalam: മഗ്നീഷ്യം (magnīṣyaṁ)
- Maltese: manjeżju m
- Manx: magneeshym m
- Maori: konupora
- Mongolian: магни (mn) (magni), ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ (maɣni)
- Navajo: béésh łikoní
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: magnèsi m
- Persian: منیزیم (fa) (manyaziyom)
- Polish: magnez (pl) m
- Portuguese: magnésio (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਮੈਗਨੇਸ਼ਿਅਮ (maigneśiama)
- Quechua: qunta q'illay
- Romanian: magneziu (ro) n
- Russian: ма́гний (ru) m (mágnij)
- Scottish Gaelic: maignèisiam m, magnesium m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: магнезијум ?, ма̀гне̄зиј m
- Roman: magnezium ?, màgnēzij (sh) m
- Sicilian: magnesiu (scn) ?
- Slovak: horčík (sk) m
- Slovene: magnẹ̑zij (sl) m
- Spanish: magnesio (es) m
- Swahili: magnesi ?
- Swedish: magnesium (sv) n
- Tagalog: magnesyo
- Tajik: магний (tg) (magniy)
- Tamil: மக்னீசியம் (ta) (makṉīciyam), வல்லகுவம் (vallakuvam)
- Thai: แมกนีเซียม (th) (mɛ́k-nii-sîiam)
- Tibetan: དཀར་གཡའ (dkar g.ya', literally “white rust”), མེག་ནི་སི་ཡམ (meg ni si yam) (phonetic translit. from English)
- Turkish: magnezyum (tr)
- Ukrainian: ма́гній (uk) m (máhnij), ма́ґній m (mágnij)
- Urdu: (please verify) بھراجاتو m (bhrājātu)
- Uyghur: ماگنىي (magniy)
- Uzbek: magniy (uz), магний (uz) (magniy)
- Vietnamese: magiê
- Welsh: magnesiwm (cy) m
- West Frisian: magnesium (fy) ?
- artinite
- Birmabright
- bischofite
- brucite
- carnallite
- deweylite
- epsomite
- gymnite
- kieserite
- lansfordite
- nesquehonite
- nigari
- olivine
- sellaite
- talc
- Magnesium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table
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magnesium (uncountable)
magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)
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Borrowed from New Latin magnesium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
magnesium n (uncountable)
Internationalism (see English magnesium), ultimately from New Latin magnēsium.
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑɡne(ː)s(ː)ium/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡne̞(ː)(s̠)ˌs̠ium]
- Rhymes: -ium
- Syllabification(key): mag‧ne‧si‧um
magnesium
Inflection of magnesium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | magnesium | — | |
genitive | magnesiumin | — | |
partitive | magnesiumia | — | |
illative | magnesiumiin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | magnesium | — | |
accusative | nom. | magnesium | — |
gen. | magnesiumin | ||
genitive | magnesiumin | — | |
partitive | magnesiumia | — | |
inessive | magnesiumissa | — | |
elative | magnesiumista | — | |
illative | magnesiumiin | — | |
adessive | magnesiumilla | — | |
ablative | magnesiumilta | — | |
allative | magnesiumille | — | |
essive | magnesiumina | — | |
translative | magnesiumiksi | — | |
abessive | magnesiumitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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- “magnesium”, 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
magnesium (uncountable)
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /maɡˈneː.si.um/, [mäŋˈneːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maɲˈɲe.si.um/, [mäɲˈɲɛːs̬ium]
Form of magnēsius.
magnēsium
- inflection of magnēsius:
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Substantivization of the neuter form of magnēsius (“of or pertaining to the region of Magnesia”).
magnēsium n (genitive magnēsiī); second declension
- (New Latin) magnesium (chemical element 12)
1782, D. Laurentius, Gulielmo Huntero, “Nova experimenta Chemica quae ad penitiorem Acidi e Pinguedine eruti cognitionem valere videntur”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I, page 28:
Magnesium nitratum nullum converſionem expertum eſt a noſtri acidi admixtione.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | magnēsium | magnēsia |
Genitive | magnēsiī | magnēsiōrum |
Dative | magnēsiō | magnēsiīs |
Accusative | magnēsium | magnēsia |
Ablative | magnēsiō | magnēsiīs |
Vocative | magnēsium | magnēsia |
magnesium n
- (uncountable) magnesium
- A part of magnesium
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From English magnesium, from New Latin magnēsium.
magnesium (Jawi spelling مݢنيسيوم)
- magnesium (chemical element)
Borrowed from Norwegian magnesium.
magnēsium
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Nominative | magnēsium | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | magnēsiuma | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | magnēsium | magnēsiumat | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | magnēsiuma | magnēsiumiid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | magnēsiuma | magnēsiumiid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | magnēsiumii | magnēsiumiidda | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | magnēsiumis | magnēsiumiin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | magnēsiumiin | magnēsiumiiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | magnēsiumin | |||||||||||||||||||||
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- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)
- “magnesium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “magnesium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)
- “magnesium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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magnesium n (uncountable)
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Nominative | magnesium | magnesiumet | — | — |
Genitive | magnesiums | magnesiumets | — | — |
Declension of magnesium | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | magnesium | magnesiet | — | — |
Genitive | magnesiums | magnesiets | — | — |
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | magnesium | magnesium | — | — |
Genitive | magnesiums | magnesiums | — | — |