yttrium

From Ytterby (literally “outer village”), a town in Sweden, + -ium.

• enPR: ĭt'rēəm, IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.tɹi.əm/, /ˈjə.tɹi.əm/, /ˈjɪ.tɹi.əm/

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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.

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yttrium (uncountable)

1. yttrium

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

yttrium n

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

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

1. yttrium

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.tri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: yt‧tri‧um

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium [from mid 19th c.]

Internationalism (see English yttrium).

• IPA^(key): /ˈytːrium/, [ˈyt̪ːrium]
• Rhymes: -ytːrium
• Syllabification^(key): ytt‧ri‧um

yttrium

1. yttrium

• IPA^(key): /i.tʁi.jɔm/

yttrium m (uncountable)

1. yttrium

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

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

yttrium n (genitive yttriī); second declension

1. yttrium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʏtrɪɵm/

yttrium n (uncountable)

1. yttrium