magnesium

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/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

magnesium (uncountable)

1. 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.

Magnesium sample

• → Welsh: magnesiwm

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• Magnesium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

• mesangium

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magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

• IPA^(key): /maɡˈne.sium/, [maʊ̯ˈneˀɕɔm]

magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) magnesium

Borrowed from New Latin magnesium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑxˈneː.zi.ʏm/

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magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

• magnesiumpoeder

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

1. magnesium

• “magnesium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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)

1. magnesium

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maɡˈneː.si.um/, [mäŋˈneːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲˈɲe.si.um/, [mäɲˈɲɛːs̬ium]

Form of magnēsius.

magnēsium

1. inflection of magnēsius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Substantivization of the neuter form of magnēsius (“of or pertaining to the region of Magnesia”).

magnēsium n (genitive magnēsiī); second declension

1. (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.

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Magnēsia
• magnēsius

• → English: magnesium
  • → Welsh: magnesiwm
• → French: magnésium (learned)
• → Galician: magnesio (learned)
• → German: Magnesium
• → Italian: magnesio (learned)
• → Luxembourgish: Magnesium
• → Portuguese: magnésio (learned)
• → Romanian: magneziu (learned)
• → Spanish: magnesio (learned)

• IPA^(key): [mɑ˧ˈɲeː˨ʒɔ˧m]

magnesium n

1. (uncountable) magnesium
2. A part of magnesium

• مݢنيسيوم

From English magnesium, from New Latin magnēsium.

• IPA^(key): /maknesiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

magnesium (Jawi spelling مݢنيسيوم)

1. magnesium (chemical element)

Borrowed from Norwegian magnesium.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmakːneːˌsiuːm/

magnēsium

1. magnesium

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

• “magnesium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “magnesium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

• “magnesium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈneːsɪɵm/

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magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium