rhodium

See also: Rhodium

English

Chemical element
Rh
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Next: palladium (Pd)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), because of the colour of its salts' solutions.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rō'dēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊdiəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -oʊdiəm

Noun

rhodium (usually uncountable, plural rhodiums)

2. A rare, hard, silvery-white, inert metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with an atomic number of 45.
3. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Derived terms

• rhodate
• rhodium-gold
• rhodium trichloride

Related terms

• rhodic
• rhodo- and its derivatives
• rhodonite
• rhodium wood, lignum rhodium

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: rodium (af)
• Albanian: rodium
• Arabic: رُودْيُوم m (rudyum)
• Armenian: ռոդիում (hy) (ṙodium)
• Asturian: rodiu (ast) m
• Basque: rodioa
• Belarusian: ро́дый m (ródyj)
• Breton: rodiom
• Bulgarian: ро́дий m (ródij)
• Catalan: rodi (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銠／铑 (zh) (lǎo)

• Cornish: rhodyum
• Czech: rhodium (cs) n
• Danish: rhodium (da) n
• Dutch: rhodium (nl) n
• Esperanto: rodio (eo)
• Estonian: roodium (et)
• Faroese: rodium n
• Finnish: rodium (fi)
• French: rhodium (fr) m
• Friulian: rodi
• Galician: rodio (gl) m
• Georgian: როდიუმი (rodiumi)
• German: Rhodium (de) n
• Greek: ρόδιο (el) n (ródio)
• Hebrew: רודיום (he) (rodyum)
• Hindi: नाम्लातु (nāmlātu)
• Hungarian: ródium (hu)
• Icelandic: ródín (is)
• Interlingua: rhodium
• Irish: róidiam (ga)
• Italian: rodio (it) m
• Japanese: ロジウム (ja) (rojiumu)
• Kashubian: ród
• Kazakh: родий (kk) (rodii)
• Khmer: រ៉ូដ្យូម (roudyoum)
• Korean: 로듐 (ko) (rodyum)
• Latin: rhodium (la)
• Latvian: rodijs
• Lithuanian: rodis (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Rhodium
• Macedonian: родиум m (rodium)
• Malay: rodium
• Maltese: rodju
• Manx: roydjum
• Mongolian: роди (rodi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rhodium n

  Nynorsk: rhodium (nn) n

• Occitan: ròdi m
• Polish: rod (pl) m
• Portuguese: ródio (pt) m
• Romanian: rodiu (ro) n
• Russian: ро́дий (ru) m (ródij)
• Scottish Gaelic: ròidiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родиј m, родијум m

  Roman: rodij (sh) m, rodijum m

• Slovak: ródium (sk)
• Slovene: rodij (sl)
• Spanish: rodio (es) m
• Swedish: rodium (sv) n
• Tagalog: rodyo
• Tajik: родий (rodiy)
• Tamil: அரத்தியம் (arattiyam)
• Thai: โรเดียม (roo-dîiam)
• Turkish: rodyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ро́дій m (ródij)
• Uzbek: rodiy (uz), родий (rodiy)
• Vietnamese: rođi
• Welsh: rhodiwm (cy)
• West Frisian: rhodium

Anagrams

• humidor, midhour

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiummet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)

Dutch

Chemical element
Rh
Previous: ruthenium (Ru)
Next: palladium (Pd)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

rhodium n (uncountable)

1. rhodium

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.djɔm/

• Audio:

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Noun

rhodium m (uncountable)

1. rhodium

Further reading

• “rhodium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Chemical element
Rh
Previous: ruthenium (Ru)
Next: palladium (Pd)

Etymology

Modern Latin, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈro.di.um/, [ˈrɔːd̪ium]

Noun

rhodium n (genitive rhodiī); second declension

1. rhodium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rhodium	rhodia
Genitive	rhodiī	rhodiōrum
Dative	rhodiō	rhodiīs
Accusative	rhodium	rhodia
Ablative	rhodiō	rhodiīs
Vocative	rhodium	rhodia

Descendants

• → Danish: rhodium
• → Dutch: rhodium
• → English: rhodium
• → French: rhodium
• → German: Rhodium
• → Italian: rodio
• → Luxembourgish: Rhodium
• → Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: rhodium
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: rhodium
• → Spanish: rodio

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiumet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (a metallic chemical element (symbol Rh) with atomic number 45)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin rhodium.

Noun

rhodium n (definite singular rhodiumet) (uncountable)

1. rhodium (as above)