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-ium
- a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin, especially 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 Gk -ion ( pericardium ).
-ium
suffix forming nouns
- indicating a metallic element
platinum
barium
- (in chemistry) indicating groups forming positive ions
hydroxonium ion
ammonium chloride
- indicating a biological structure
syncytium
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of -ium1
51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins
Origin of -ium1
Example Sentences
YouTuber Ium Daro, who started filming Angkor monkeys about three months ago, followed a mother and a baby along a dirt path with his iPhone held on a selfie stick to get in close.
Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the āium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable.
"For linguistic consistency, the recommended practice is that all new elements should end in '-ium'," he adds.
Stethidā²ium, in insects, the thorax.
Trivā²ialness; Trivā²ium, in medieval schools the name given to the first three liberal artsāviz. grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
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