erbium

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɜː.bɪ.əm/

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• (US) enPR: ûr'bē-əm, IPA^(key): /ˈɝ.bi.əm/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)biəm

erbium (countable and uncountable, plural erbiums)

1. A chemical element (symbol Er) with atomic number 68: a silvery-white metal, in nature always found in combination with other elements.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

• erbium oxide
• erbium trichloride

• erbia
• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

• imbrue, imbuer

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erbium (uncountable)

1. erbium

• erbies

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrbɪjum]

erbium n

1. erbium (metallic chemical element with an atomic number of 68)

erbium

1. erbium
   • 1874, Beretning ..., page 29:

     ... at Thorium maaske bør betragtes som fireatomet, Cer, Lanthan, Didym, Erbium og Yttrium derimod som treatomige.

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   • 2016, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, DNA, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Erbium, stoffet med atomnummer otteogtres og atomtegn Er.

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   • 1881, Tidsskrift for physik og chemi: samt disse videnskabers anvendelse ...:

     ... Vanadium, Antimon, Tantal, Erbium, Ytterbium, Cerium, ...

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Borrowed. Named after Ytterby in Sweden.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛr.biˌʏm/

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• Hyphenation: er‧bi‧um
• Rhymes: -ɛrbiʏm

erbium n (uncountable)

1. erbium

• terbium
• ytterbium
• yttrium

German Erbium.

erbium (genitive erbiumi, partitive erbiumi or erbiumit)

1. erbium

Internationalism (see English erbium).

• IPA^(key): /ˈerbium/, [ˈe̞rbium]
• Rhymes: -erbium
• Syllabification^(key): er‧bi‧um

erbium

1. erbium

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ.bjɔm/

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erbium m (uncountable)

1. erbium

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛrbijum]
• Hyphenation: er‧bi‧um
• Rhymes: -um

erbium (usually uncountable, plural erbiumok)

1. erbium (chemical element)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈer.bi.um/, [ˈɛrbiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.bi.um/, [ˈɛrbium]

erbium n (genitive erbiī); second declension

1. erbium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• IPA^(key): [ˈæ˨ʁbjɔ˧m]

erbium n

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

From English erbium, from Swedish Ytterby.

• IPA^(key): [ə(r)biom], [ə(r)biəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

erbium

1. erbium (chemical element)

From the Swedish town of Ytterby.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrbium/

erbium n (genitive singular erbia, declension pattern of mesto)

1. erbium (element)

• “erbium”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrbɪɵm/

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erbium c

1. erbium

• erbium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• Svensk MeSH