yttrium

See also: Yttrium

English

Chemical element
Y
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Yttrium dendrites and cube.

Etymology

From Ytterby +‎ -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as terbium, erbium, and ytterbium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭt'rēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɪtɹiːəm/, /ˈjɪtɹiːəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

yttrium (usually uncountable, plural yttriums)

1. A silvery metallic chemical element (symbol Y) with an atomic number of 39, mainly found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals.

Derived terms

• diyttrium trioxide
• gadolinium yttrium garnet
• yttric
• yttriferous
• yttrious
• yttrite
• yttrium-90
• yttrium aluminium garnet, yttrium aluminum garnet
• yttrium anhydrous chloride
• yttrium barium copper oxide
• yttrium fluoride
• yttrium iron garnet
• yttrium lithium fluoride
• yttrium oxide
• yttrium vanadate
• yttro-

 

Related terms

• erbium
• terbium
• YBCO
• ytter
• ytterbite
• ytterbium
• Ytterby
• ytterite
• yttria

 

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: yttrium (af)
• Albanian: itrium ?
• Arabic: إِتْرِيُوم (ar) m (ʔitriyum), يِتْرِيُوم m (yitriyum)
• Armenian: իտրիում (itrium)
• Asturian: itriu (ast) m
• Basque: itrioa
• Belarusian: і́трый m (ítryj)
• Breton: itriom ?
• Bulgarian: и́трий m (ítrij)
• Catalan: itri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 釔 / 钇 (zh) (yǐ)

• Cornish: ytryum ?
• Czech: yttrium (cs) n
• Danish: yttrium (da) n
• Dutch: yttrium (nl) n
• Esperanto: itrio (eo)
• Estonian: ütrium (et)
• Faroese: yttrium n
• Finnish: yttrium (fi)
• French: yttrium (fr) m
• Friulian: itri ?
• Galician: itrio (gl) m
• Georgian: იტრიუმი (iṭriumi)
• German: Yttrium (de) n
• Greek: ύττριο (el) n (ýttrio)
• Hebrew: איטריום (he) m (ítriyum)
• Hindi: भृशला ? (bhŕślā)
• Hungarian: ittrium (hu)
• Icelandic: yttrín (is) n
• Ido: yitro
• Interlingua: yttrium
• Irish: itriam (ga) m
• Italian: ittrio (it) m
• Japanese: イットリウム (ja) (ittoriumu)
• Kashubian: éter ?
• Kazakh: иттрий (ittrii)
• Khmer: អ៊ីទ្រីយ៉ូម (ʼiitriiyoum)
• Korean: 이트륨 (ko) (iteuryum)
• Latin: yttrium (la) n
• Latvian: itrijs m
• Limburgish: itrium n
• Lithuanian: itris (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Yttrium ?
• Macedonian: итриум m (itrium)
• Malay: itrium
• Maltese: ittriju m
• Manx: yttrium ?
• Mongolian: иттри (ittri)
• Norwegian: yttrium ?
• Occitan: itri m
• Polish: itr (pl) m
• Portuguese: ítrio (pt) m
• Romanian: ytriu (ro) n
• Russian: и́ттрий (ru) m (íttrij)
• Scottish Gaelic: itrium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: итриjум ?, и̑трӣј m

  Roman: itrijum ?, ȋtrīj (sh) m

• Slovak: ytrium (sk) n
• Slovene: ítrij (sl) m
• Spanish: itrio (es) m
• Swedish: yttrium (sv) n
• Tagalog: itriyo
• Tajik: иттрий (ittriy)
• Tamil: திகழியம் (tikaḻiyam)
• Thai: อิตเทรียม (ìt-trîiam)
• Turkish: itriyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: і́трій m (ítrij)
• Uzbek: ittriy (uz)

  Cyrillic: иттрий (ittriy)

• Vietnamese: ytri
• Volapük: lütrin (vo)
• Welsh: ytriwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: yttrium ?

See also

• bastnasite

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Y
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Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

yttrium (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Czech

Chemical element
Y
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪtrɪjum]
• Hyphenation: yt‧t‧rium

Noun

yttrium n

1. yttrium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 39)

Declension

Declension of yttrium (semisoft neuter foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	yttrium	yttria
genitive	yttria	yttrií
dative	yttriu	yttriím
accusative	yttrium	yttria
vocative	yttrium	yttria
locative	yttriu	yttriích
instrumental	yttriem	yttrii

Danish

Noun

yttrium n (singular definite yttriummet, not used in plural form)

1. yttrium

Dutch

Chemical element
Y
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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin yttrium or Swedish yttrium. Named after Ytterby in Sweden. The first mention is from the late eighteenth century, which in fact referred to gadolinite, a mineral that was at the time misidentified as an element.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: yt‧tri‧um

Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium [from mid 19th c.]

Related terms

• erbium
• terbium
• ytterbium

 

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English yttrium).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyt(ː)rium/, [ˈyt̪.(t̪)rium]
• Rhymes: -yt(ː)rium
• Hyphenation^(key): ytt‧ri‧um

Noun

yttrium

1. yttrium

Declension

Inflection of yttrium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		yttrium	—
genitive		yttriumin	—
partitive		yttriumia	—
illative		yttriumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		yttrium	—
accusative	nom.	yttrium	—
	gen.	yttriumin
genitive		yttriumin	—
partitive		yttriumia	—
inessive		yttriumissa	—
elative		yttriumista	—
illative		yttriumiin	—
adessive		yttriumilla	—
ablative		yttriumilta	—
allative		yttriumille	—
essive		yttriumina	—
translative		yttriumiksi	—
abessive		yttriumitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of yttrium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative yttriumini — accusative nom. yttriumini — gen. yttriumini genitive yttriumini — partitive yttriumiani — inessive yttriumissani — elative yttriumistani — illative yttriumiini — adessive yttriumillani — ablative yttriumiltani — allative yttriumilleni — essive yttriuminani — translative yttriumikseni — abessive yttriumittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative yttriumisi — accusative nom. yttriumisi — gen. yttriumisi genitive yttriumisi — partitive yttriumiasi — inessive yttriumissasi — elative yttriumistasi — illative yttriumiisi — adessive yttriumillasi — ablative yttriumiltasi — allative yttriumillesi — essive yttriuminasi — translative yttriumiksesi — abessive yttriumittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative yttriumimme — accusative nom. yttriumimme — gen. yttriumimme genitive yttriumimme — partitive yttriumiamme — inessive yttriumissamme — elative yttriumistamme — illative yttriumiimme — adessive yttriumillamme — ablative yttriumiltamme — allative yttriumillemme — essive yttriuminamme — translative yttriumiksemme — abessive yttriumittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative yttriuminne — accusative nom. yttriuminne — gen. yttriuminne genitive yttriuminne — partitive yttriumianne — inessive yttriumissanne — elative yttriumistanne — illative yttriumiinne — adessive yttriumillanne — ablative yttriumiltanne — allative yttriumillenne — essive yttriuminanne — translative yttriumiksenne — abessive yttriumittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative yttriuminsa — accusative nom. yttriuminsa — gen. yttriuminsa genitive yttriuminsa — partitive yttriumiaan yttriumiansa — inessive yttriumissaan yttriumissansa — elative yttriumistaan yttriumistansa — illative yttriumiinsa — adessive yttriumillaan yttriumillansa — ablative yttriumiltaan yttriumiltansa — allative yttriumilleen yttriumillensa — essive yttriuminaan yttriuminansa — translative yttriumikseen yttriumiksensa — abessive yttriumittaan yttriumittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

compounds

• yttriumoksidi

 

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.tʁi.jɔm/

Noun

yttrium m (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Further reading

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

Latin

Chemical element
Y
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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈyt.tri.um/, [ˈʏt̪ːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈit.tri.um/, [ˈit̪ːrium]

Noun

yttrium n (genitive yttriī); second declension

1. yttrium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	yttrium	yttria
genitive	yttriī	yttriōrum
dative	yttriō	yttriīs
accusative	yttrium	yttria
ablative	yttriō	yttriīs
vocative	yttrium	yttria

Swedish

Chemical element
Y
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏtrɪɵm/

• Audio:

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Noun

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium

Declension

Declension of yttrium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	yttrium	yttriums
	definite	yttriumet	yttriumets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of yttrium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	yttrium	yttriums
	definite	yttriet	yttriets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Declension of yttrium

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	yttrium	yttriums
	definite	yttrium	yttriums
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• yttrium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• yttrium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• yttrium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH