cerium

• cererium (a name proposed (but not accepted) to indicate "cerium" does not come from the Greek word for "wax")

From Ceres (“a recently discovered asteroid”) +‎ -ium.

• enPR: sîr'ēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹiəm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

cerium (usually uncountable, plural ceriums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air.

• Ceres
• ceria

• allanite
• bastnasite
• CAN
• hydroxylbastnasite
• jeweler's rouge, jeweller's rouge
• monazite
• orthite
• rhabdophane
• synchysite

• uremic

cerium

1. cerium

Borrowed from Swedish cerium, New Latin cerium or French cérium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.riˌʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ce‧ri‧um

cerium n (uncountable)

1. cerium [from 1830s or earlier]

Internationalism (see English cerium).

• IPA^(key): /ˈseːri.um/, [ˈs̠e̞ːri.um]

cerium

1. cerium

From Ancient Greek κηρίον (kēríon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ri.um/, [ˈkeːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

cērium n (genitive cēriī or cērī); second declension

1. A bad species of swelling or ulcer

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈke.ri.um/, [ˈkɛriʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri.um/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrium]

cerium n (genitive ceriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) cerium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “cerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

cerium n

1. cerium