tellurium

See also: Tellurium

English

Chemical element
Te
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Next: iodine (I)

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭlyo͝or'ēəm, IPA^(key): /tɪˈljʊəɹiəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

Latin tellūs (“earth”) ‎ -ium

Noun

tellurium (countable and uncountable, plural telluriums)

1. (uncountable) The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Synonyms

• sylvanium (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• chalcogen

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bismuthic tellurium
• bismuth-tellurium
• black tellurium
• foliated tellurium
• graphic tellurium
• tellur-, telluri-
• tellurane
• tellurate
• telluret
• tellureted, telluretted
• telluric
• telluride
• tellurious
• tellurise, tellurize
• tellurite
• tellurium-128
• tellurium-130
• tellurium bromide
• tellurium chloride
• tellurium dioxide
• tellurium glance
• tellurium hydride
• tellurium nitrate
• tellurium oxalate
• tellurium salt
• tellurium sulfate, tellurium sulphate
• tellurium sulfide, tellurium sulphide
• tellurium tetrachloride
• tellurium trioxide
• tellurous
• tellururet
• tetratellurium
• white tellurium
• yellow tellurium

Related terms

Related terms

• tellane
• tellural
• tellurian
• telluric (of the earth)
• tellurion
• tellurism
• tellurometer
• Tellus

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: telluur (af)
• Albanian: telur
• Arabic: تِيلُورِيُوم m (tilūriyum)
• Armenian: տելուր (hy) (telur)
• Asturian: teluriu (ast) m
• Basque: telurioa
• Belarusian: тэлу́р m (telúr)
• Breton: telluriom
• Bulgarian: телу́р (bg) m (telúr)
• Catalan: tel·luri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碲 (zh) (dì)

• Cornish: teluryum
• Czech: tellur (cs)
• Danish: tellur (da)
• Dutch: telluur (nl) n, tellurium (nl) n
• Esperanto: teluro (eo)
• Estonian: telluur (et)
• Faroese: tellur n
• Finnish: telluuri (fi)
• French: tellure (fr) m
• Friulian: teluri
• Galician: telurio (gl)
• Georgian: ტელური (ṭeluri)
• German: Tellur (de) n
• Greek: τελλούριο (el) n (telloúrio)
• Hebrew: טלוריום (teluryum)
• Hindi: वंगक (vaṅgak)
• Hungarian: tellúr (hu)
• Icelandic: tellúr (is)
• Irish: teallúiriam
• Italian: tellurio (it) m
• Japanese: テルル (ja) (teruru)
• Kashubian: tellur
• Korean: 텔루르 (ko) (tellureu), 텔루륨 (telluryum)
• Latin: tellurium (la)
• Latvian: telūrs
• Lithuanian: telūras (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Tellur
• Macedonian: телур (telur)
• Malay: telurium
• Maltese: tellurju
• Manx: çhellurium
• Mongolian: теллур (tellur)
• Norwegian: tellur
• Occitan: telluri m
• Ottoman Turkish: تلور (tellűr)
• Polish: tellur (pl) m
• Portuguese: telúrio (pt) m
• Romanian: telur (ro) n
• Russian: теллу́р (ru) m (tellúr)
• Scottish Gaelic: teallùiriam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телур, телуриј

  Roman: telur (sh), telurij (sh)

• Slovak: telúr
• Slovene: telur (sl)
• Spanish: teluro (es) m
• Swedish: tellur (sv) n
• Tagalog: teluro
• Tajik: теллур (tg) (tellur)
• Tamil: வெண்கந்தகம் (veṇkantakam)
• Thai: เทลลูเรียม (teel-luu-rîiam)
• Turkish: tellür (tr)
• Ukrainian: телу́р m (telúr)
• Uzbek: tellur (uz), теллур (uz) (tellur)
• Vietnamese: telua, telu
• Volapük: telurin (vo)
• Welsh: telwriwm (cy)
• West Frisian: telluur

See also

• calaverite
• nagyagite
• sylvanite

Etymology 2

Latin tellus (“earth”).

Noun

tellurium

1. A variant spelling of tellurion.

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Tellurium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “tellurium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Danish

Noun

tellurium

1. tellurium

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tellurium n (uncountable)

1. tellurium

Synonyms

• telluur

Latin

Chemical element
Te
Previous: stibium (Sb)
Next: iodum (I)

Etymology

From tellūs (“earth”) ‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /telˈluː.ri.um/, [t̪ɛlˈlʲuːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /telˈlu.ri.um/, [t̪elˈluːrium]

Noun

tellūrium n (genitive tellūriī); second declension

1. (New Latin) tellurium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tellūrium	tellūria
Genitive	tellūriī	tellūriōrum
Dative	tellūriō	tellūriīs
Accusative	tellūrium	tellūria
Ablative	tellūriō	tellūriīs
Vocative	tellūrium	tellūria

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurier, definite plural telluria or telluriene)

1. tellurion

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tellurium n (definite singular telluriet, indefinite plural tellurium, definite plural telluria)

1. tellurion

Polish

tellurium

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin tellūrium. Doublet of tellur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛlˈlu.rjum/
• Rhymes: -urjum
• Syllabification: tel‧lu‧rium

Noun

tellurium n

1. (astronomy, historical) orrery, tellurion (instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons)

Declension

Declension of tellurium

	singular	plural
nominative	tellurium	telluria
genitive	tellurium	telluriów
dative	tellurium	telluriom
accusative	tellurium	telluria
instrumental	tellurium	telluriami
locative	tellurium	telluriach
vocative	tellurium	telluria

Related terms

adjectives

• tellurowy
• telluryczny

 

nouns

• tellur
• tellurek
• tellurometr

 

Further reading

• tellurium in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tellurium in PWN's encyclopedia