单词 | unnilpentium |
释义 | unnilpentium in British English (ˌjuːnɪlˈpɛntɪəm) noun the former provisional name for dubnium unnilpentium in American English (ˌjunəlˈpɛntiəm) noun Obsolete dubnium: symbol, Unp unnilpentium in American English (ˌjuːnɪlˈpentiəm) noun Chemistry & Physics a former provisional name for the element dubnium Word origin [1975–80; ‹ L ūn(us) one + nīl nothing + Gk pént(e) five + NL -ium -ium]This word is first recorded in the period 1975–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: family therapy, methanogen, noogie, retrovirus, surrogate mother-ium is a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin, esp. derivatives of verbs (odium; tedium; colloquium; delirium), deverbal compounds with the initial element denoting the object of the verb (nasturtium), other types of compounds (equilibrium; millennium), and derivatives of personal nouns, often denoting the associated status or office(collegium; consortium; magisterium); -ium also occurs in scientific coinages on a Latin model, as in names of metallic elements(barium; titanium) and as a Latinization of Greek -ion (pericardium) |
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