zirconium
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From a New Latin coinage, from zircon. Doublet of jargonium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: zûrkō'nēəm, IPA(key): /zɜːɹˈkoʊniəm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]zirconium (countable and uncountable, plural zirconiums)
- A chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
- 2005, Tally Hall (lyrics and music), “Ruler of Everything”, in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum[1]:
- Do you like how I dance? / I've got zirconium pants / Consequential enough / To slip you into a trance
Derived terms
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[edit]zirconium
French
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[edit]Noun
[edit]zirconium m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “zirconium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /zirˈkoː.ni.um/, [d̪͡z̪ɪrˈkoːniʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡zirˈko.ni.um/, [d̪͡z̪irˈkɔːnium]
Noun
[edit]zircōnium n (genitive zircōniī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | zircōnium | zircōnia |
Genitive | zircōniī | zircōniōrum |
Dative | zircōniō | zircōniīs |
Accusative | zircōnium | zircōnia |
Ablative | zircōniō | zircōniīs |
Vocative | zircōnium | zircōnia |
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