Germanium

See also: germanium and germánium

German

Chemical element (edit)
Ge Atomic number 32 Germanium
Classification data Period 4 Group 14 Block p-block Class metalloid
Previous: ← Gallium (Ga)
Next: Arsen (As) →

Etymology

Coined by German chemist Clemens Winkler in 1886, from Latin Germania + -ium, in honour of his nation.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Noun

Germanium n (strong, genitive Germaniums, no plural)

1. germanium
   • 1886 January, Clemens Winkler, “Germanium, Ge, ein neues, nichtmetallisches Element”, in Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, number 19, page 210:

     Nach mehrwöchentlichem, mühevollem Suchen kann ich heute mit Bestimmtheit aussprechen, dass der Argyrodit ein neues, dem Antimon sehr ähnliches, aber von diesem doch scharf unterschiedenes Element enthält, welchem der Name »Germanium« beigelegt werden möge.

     After several weeks of painstaking searching, I can now state with certainty that argyrodite contains a new element, very similar to antimony but nevertheless sharply different from it, which may be given the name "germanium".

Declension

Declension of Germanium [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Germanium
genitive	eines	des	Germaniums
dative	einem	dem	Germanium
accusative	ein	das	Germanium

Coordinate terms

• (chemical element): Previous: Gallium. Next: Arsen

Descendants

• → Albanian: germanium
• → Czech: germanium
• → Danish: germanium
• → Dutch: germanium
• → English: germanium
  • → Korean: 저마늄 (jeomanyum)
  • → Swahili: gerimani
  • → Thai: เจอร์เมเนียม (jəə-mee-nîiam)
  • → Welsh: germaniwm
• → French: germanium
  • → Persian: ژرمانیوم (žermâniyom)
• → Italian: germanio
  • → Maltese: ġermanju
• → Japanese: ゲルマニウム (gerumaniumu)
• → Korean: 게르마늄 (gereumanyum)
• → Russian: герма́ний (germánij)
  • → Kazakh: германий (germanii)
  • → Mongolian: германи (germani)
  • → Tajik: германий (germaniy)
  • → Uyghur: گېرمانىي (gërmaniy)
• → Spanish: germanio
  • → Tagalog: hermanyo

Further reading

• “Germanium” in Duden online
• “Germanium”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Luxembourgish

Chemical element (edit)
Ge Atomic number 32 Germanium
Classification data Period 4 Group 14 Block p-block Class metalloid
Previous: ← Gallium (Ga)
Next: Arsen (As) →

Noun

Germanium ? (uncountable)

1. germanium

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjer.mɑ.ni.um/, [ˈjerˠ.mɑ.ni.um]

Proper noun

Ġermanium

1. dative plural of Ġermanie