iridium

From international scientific vocabulary, from the New Latin.

• enPR: ĭrĭd'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹɪd.i.əm/

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iridium (countable and uncountable, plural iridiums)

1. (uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 75:

     Iridium is extremely rare on the surface of the earth but much more common in meteorites.

2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

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iridium (uncountable)

1. iridium

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪriːdɪjum]
• Hyphenation: iri‧dium

iridium n

1. iridium

iridium n

1. iridium

• “iridium” in Den Danske Ordbog

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iridium n (uncountable)

1. iridium

Internationalism (see English iridium).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiridium/, [ˈiriˌdium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): i‧ri‧di‧um

iridium

1. iridium

• “iridium”, 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 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁi.djɔm/

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iridium m (uncountable)

1. iridium

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

New Latin iridium is from Classical Latin iris, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”), because of the bright colour of many of the element's salts.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iːˈri.di.um/, [iːˈrɪd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈri.di.um/, [iˈriːd̪ium]

īridium n (genitive īridiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) iridium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• IPA^(key): [ɪ˧ˈʁi˦ɖɔ˧m]

iridium n

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

From English iridium, from Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) -ium.

• IPA^(key): [iridiom], [iridiəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

iridium

1. iridium (chemical element)

From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris, “rainbow”) +‎ -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.

iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)

1. iridium, chemical element, symbol Ir

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

From Ancient Greek ἶρις (îris) +‎ -ium, presumably via New Latin iridium.

iridium n (definite singular iridiumet, uncountable)

1. iridium, chemical element, symbol Ir

• “iridium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

iridium n (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of iridiu