magnesium

See also: Magnesium and magnésium

English

Chemical element
Mg
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Etymology

From New Latin magnēsium, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía, “Magnesia”), a region in Thessaly. Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy, as a modification of his original suggestion, magnium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈniːzi.əm/
• (US) enPR: măgnē'zēəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈnizi.əm/; enPR: măgnē'zhəm, IPA^(key): /ˌmæɡˈniʒəm/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

2. The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.
   • 1999, Chapter 1 "Barrens" Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

     The building looked only like a wall glowing in the firelight, but sometimes a barrage of magnesium blue light made its windowframes jump out of the darkness.

Magnesium sample

Derived terms

• butylmagnesium
• calcium magnesium carbonate
• calcium magnesium silicate
• dimagnesium
• eumagnesemia
• ferromagnesium
• heptamagnesium
• hexamagnesium
• hydromagnesium
• mafic
• magnesaemia
• magnesemia
• magnesian
• magnesic
• magnesium-24
• magnesium-25
• magnesium-26
• magnesium alloy
• magnesium aluminate
• magnesium aluminium oxide, magnesium aluminum oxide
• magnesium aluminium silicate, magnesium aluminum silicate
• magnesium carbonate
• magnesium caseinate
• magnesium chlorate
• magnesium chloride
• magnesium chlorite
• magnesium citrate
• magnesium diboride
• magnesium diglutamate
• magnesium fluoride
• magnesium gallate
• magnesium hydroxide
• magnesium lactate
• magnesium lamp
• magnesium laureth sulfate, magnesium laureth sulphate
• magnesium light
• magnesiumlike
• magnesium mica
• magnesium nitrate
• magnesium nitride
• magnesium oxide
• magnesium perchlorate
• magnesium peroxide
• magnesium phosphate
• magnesium ribbon
• magnesium silicate
• magnesium stearate
• magnesium sulfate, magnesium sulphate
• magnesium sulfide, magnesium sulphide
• magnesium wire
• magnesuria
• magniferous
• manganoso-magnesium alum
• methylmagnesium
• nonamagnesium
• nonmagnesium
• normomagnesemia
• organomagnesium
• pentamagnesium
• potassium magnesium chloride hexahydrate
• radiomagnesium
• sesquimagnesium
• tetramagnesium
• trimagnesium

 

Related terms

• magnalium
• magnelium
• Magnesia
• magnesia
• magnesite
• magnox, Magnox
• mag wheel

 

Descendants

• → Welsh: magnesiwm

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: magnesium (af)
• Albanian: magneziumi
• Arabic: مَغْنِسْيُوم m (maḡnisyum)
• Armenian: մագնեզիում (hy) (magnezium)
• Asturian: magnesiu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: maqnezium
• Basque: magnesioa
• Belarusian: магній m (mahnij)
• Bengali: ম্যাগনেশিয়াম (bn) (mêgneśiẏam)
• Breton: magneziom m, magnesiom m
• Bulgarian: магне́зий (bg) m (magnézij)
• Catalan: magnesi (ca) m
• Cebuano: magnesium
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎂／镁 (zh) (měi)

• Cornish: magnysyum ?
• Corsican: magnesiu m
• Czech: hořčík (cs) m
• Danish: magnesium (da) n
• Dhivehi: މެގްނީޒިއަމް (megnīziam̊)
• Dutch: magnesium (nl) n
• Esperanto: magnezio (eo)
• Estonian: magneesium (et)
• Faroese: magnesium n
• Finnish: magnesium (fi)
• French: magnésium (fr) m
• Friulian: magnesi ?
• Galician: magnesio (gl) m
• Georgian: მაგნიუმი (magniumi)
• German: Magnesium (de) n
• Greek: μαγνήσιο (el) n (magnísio)
• Haitian Creole: manyezyòm
• Hawaiian: makanekiuma
• Hebrew: מגנזיום (he) m (magnezium)
• Hindi: भ्राजातु m (bhrājātu)
• Hungarian: magnézium (hu)
• Icelandic: magnesín (is) n, magnín n, magníum n, magnesíum n
• Ido: magnezo (io)
• Indonesian: magnesium (id)
• Interlingua: magnesium
• Irish: maignéisiam (ga) m
• Italian: magnesio (it) m
• Japanese: マグネシウム (ja) (maguneshiumu), 苦土素 (kudoso)
• Javanese: magnesium
• Kannada: ಮ್ಯಗ್ನೀಶಿಯಮ್ (myagnīśiyam)
• Kashubian: magnéz m, magnez m
• Kazakh: магний (magnii)
• Khmer: ម៉ាញ៉េស៊ីយ៉ុម (maañeesiiyoom), ម៉ាញ៉េស្យូម (maañeesyoum)
• Korean: 마그네슘 (ko) (mageunesyum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: magnezyûm (ku)

• Latin: magnesium (la) n
• Latvian: magnijs (lv) m
• Lingala: manezu class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: magnis (lt) m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: magnesium ?

  German Low German: Magnesium ?

• Luxembourgish: Magnesium ?
• Macedonian: магнезиум m (magnezium)
• Malay: magnesium (ms)
• Malayalam: മഗ്നീഷ്യം (magnīṣyaṁ)
• Maltese: manjeżju m
• Manx: magneeshym m
• Maori: konupora
• Mongolian: магни (mn) (magni), ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ (maɣni)
• Navajo: béésh łikoní
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: magnesium (no) m or n

  Nynorsk: magnesium (nn) m or n

• Occitan: magnèsi m
• Persian: منیزیم (fa) (manyaziyom)
• Polish: magnez (pl) m
• Portuguese: magnésio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਮੈਗਨੇਸ਼ਿਅਮ (maigneśiama)
• Quechua: qunta q'illay
• Romanian: magneziu (ro) n
• Russian: ма́гний (ru) m (mágnij)
• Scottish Gaelic: maignèisiam m, magnesium m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: магнезијум ?, ма̀гне̄зиј m

  Roman: magnezium ?, màgnēzij (sh) m

• Sicilian: magnesiu (scn) ?
• Slovak: horčík (sk) m
• Slovene: magnẹ̑zij (sl) m
• Spanish: magnesio (es) m
• Swahili: magnesi ?
• Swedish: magnesium (sv) n
• Tagalog: magnesyo
• Tajik: магний (tg) (magniy)
• Tamil: மக்னீசியம் (ta) (makṉīciyam), வல்லகுவம் (vallakuvam)
• Thai: แมกนีเซียม (th) (mɛ́k-nii-sîiam)
• Tibetan: དཀར་གཡའ (dkar g.ya', literally “white rust”), མེག་ནི་སི་ཡམ (meg ni si yam) (phonetic translit. from English)
• Turkish: magnezyum (tr)
• Ukrainian: ма́гній (uk) m (máhnij), ма́ґній m (mágnij)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} بھراجاتو m (bhrājātu)
• Uyghur: ماگنىي (magniy)
• Uzbek: magniy (uz), магний (uz) (magniy)
• Vietnamese: magiê
• Welsh: magnesiwm (cy) m
• West Frisian: magnesium (fy) ?

See also

• artinite
• Birmabright
• bischofite
• brucite
• carnallite
• deweylite
• epsomite
• gymnite
• kieserite
• lansfordite
• nesquehonite
• nigari
• olivine
• sellaite
• talc

References

• Magnesium on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Anagrams

• mesangium

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Mg
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Pronunciation

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Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɡˈne.sium/, [maʊ̯ˈneˀɕɔm]

Noun

magnesium n (singular definite magnesiummet, not used in plural form)

1. (chemistry) magnesium

Dutch

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin magnesium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɑxˈneː.zi.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Derived terms

• magnesiumpoeder

Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English magnesium), ultimately from New Latin magnēsium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɡne(ː)s(ː)ium/, [ˈmɑ̝ɡne̞(ː)(s̠)ˌs̠ium]
• Rhymes: -ium
• Syllabification^(key): mag‧ne‧si‧um

Noun

magnesium

1. magnesium

Declension

Inflection of magnesium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		magnesium	—
genitive		magnesiumin	—
partitive		magnesiumia	—
illative		magnesiumiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		magnesium	—
accusative	nom.	magnesium	—
	gen.	magnesiumin
genitive		magnesiumin	—
partitive		magnesiumia	—
inessive		magnesiumissa	—
elative		magnesiumista	—
illative		magnesiumiin	—
adessive		magnesiumilla	—
ablative		magnesiumilta	—
allative		magnesiumille	—
essive		magnesiumina	—
translative		magnesiumiksi	—
abessive		magnesiumitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

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

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative magnesiumini — accusative nom. magnesiumini — gen. magnesiumini genitive magnesiumini — partitive magnesiumiani — inessive magnesiumissani — elative magnesiumistani — illative magnesiumiini — adessive magnesiumillani — ablative magnesiumiltani — allative magnesiumilleni — essive magnesiuminani — translative magnesiumikseni — abessive magnesiumittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative magnesiumisi — accusative nom. magnesiumisi — gen. magnesiumisi genitive magnesiumisi — partitive magnesiumiasi — inessive magnesiumissasi — elative magnesiumistasi — illative magnesiumiisi — adessive magnesiumillasi — ablative magnesiumiltasi — allative magnesiumillesi — essive magnesiuminasi — translative magnesiumiksesi — abessive magnesiumittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative magnesiumimme — accusative nom. magnesiumimme — gen. magnesiumimme genitive magnesiumimme — partitive magnesiumiamme — inessive magnesiumissamme — elative magnesiumistamme — illative magnesiumiimme — adessive magnesiumillamme — ablative magnesiumiltamme — allative magnesiumillemme — essive magnesiuminamme — translative magnesiumiksemme — abessive magnesiumittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative magnesiuminne — accusative nom. magnesiuminne — gen. magnesiuminne genitive magnesiuminne — partitive magnesiumianne — inessive magnesiumissanne — elative magnesiumistanne — illative magnesiumiinne — adessive magnesiumillanne — ablative magnesiumiltanne — allative magnesiumillenne — essive magnesiuminanne — translative magnesiumiksenne — abessive magnesiumittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative magnesiuminsa — accusative nom. magnesiuminsa — gen. magnesiuminsa genitive magnesiuminsa — partitive magnesiumiaan magnesiumiansa — inessive magnesiumissaan magnesiumissansa — elative magnesiumistaan magnesiumistansa — illative magnesiumiinsa — adessive magnesiumillaan magnesiumillansa — ablative magnesiumiltaan magnesiumiltansa — allative magnesiumilleen magnesiumillensa — essive magnesiuminaan magnesiuminansa — translative magnesiumikseen magnesiumiksensa — abessive magnesiumittaan magnesiumittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

compounds

• kalsiummagnesiumasetaatti
• magnesiumdistearaatti
• magnesiumfosfaatti
• magnesiumhydroksidi
• magnesiumkarbonaatti
• magnesiumkloridi
• magnesiumoksidi
• magnesiumsilikaatti
• magnesiumsulfaatti

 

Further reading

• “magnesium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Interlingua

Noun

magnesium (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maɡˈneː.si.um/, [mäŋˈneːs̠iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /maɲˈɲe.si.um/, [mäɲˈɲɛːs̬ium]

Etymology 1

Form of magnēsius.

Adjective

magnēsium

1. inflection of magnēsius:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 2

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Substantivization of the neuter form of magnēsius (“of or pertaining to the region of Magnesia”).

Noun

magnēsium n (genitive magnēsiī); second declension

1. (New Latin) magnesium (chemical element 12)
   • 1782, D. Laurentius, Gulielmo Huntero, “Nova experimenta Chemica quae ad penitiorem Acidi e Pinguedine eruti cognitionem valere videntur”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I, page 28:

     Magnesium nitratum nullum converſionem expertum eſt a noſtri acidi admixtione.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnēsium	magnēsia
Genitive	magnēsiī	magnēsiōrum
Dative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
Accusative	magnēsium	magnēsia
Ablative	magnēsiō	magnēsiīs
Vocative	magnēsium	magnēsia

Related terms

• Magnēsia
• magnēsius

Descendants

• → English: magnesium
  • → Welsh: magnesiwm
• → French: magnésium (learned)
• → Galician: magnesio (learned)
• → German: Magnesium
• → Italian: magnesio (learned)
• → Luxembourgish: Magnesium
• → Portuguese: magnésio (learned)
• → Romanian: magneziu (learned)
• → Spanish: magnesio (learned)

Limburgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɑ˧ˈɲeː˨ʒɔ˧m]

Noun

magnesium n

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

Malay

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Alternative forms

• مݢنيسيوم

Etymology

From English magnesium, from New Latin magnēsium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maknesiom/
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

Noun

magnesium (Jawi spelling مݢنيسيوم)

1. magnesium (chemical element)

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian magnesium.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmakːneːˌsiuːm/

Noun

magnēsium

1. magnesium

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	magnēsium
Genitive	magnēsiuma
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	magnēsium	magnēsiumat
Accusative	magnēsiuma	magnēsiumiid
Genitive	magnēsiuma	magnēsiumiid
Illative	magnēsiumii	magnēsiumiidda
Locative	magnēsiumis	magnēsiumiin
Comitative	magnēsiumiin	magnēsiumiiguin
Essive	magnēsiumin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person magnēsiuman magnēsiumeamẹ magnēsiumeamẹt 2nd person magnēsiumat magnēsiumeattẹ magnēsiumeattẹt 3rd person magnēsiumis magnēsiumeaskkạ magnēsiumeasẹt

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From magnesia +‎ -ium.

Noun

magnesium m or n (definite singular magnesiumen or magnesiumet, uncountable)

1. magnesium, chemical element, symbol Mg

References

• “magnesium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Chemical element
Mg
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Next: aluminium (Al)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maŋˈneːsɪɵm/

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Noun

magnesium n (uncountable)

1. magnesium

Declension

Declension of magnesium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnesium	magnesiumet	—	—
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesiumets	—	—

Declension of magnesium
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	magnesium	magnesiet	—	—
Genitive	magnesiums	magnesiets	—	—