# palladium
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA: /pəˈleɪdiəm/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epiteth used before Athena.

#### Noun

palladium (plural palladia)
* A safeguard.
** 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.
** 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):[H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]
** 1967, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufman, The Birth of Tragedy, published 1872, in 1967:The presupposition of the Prometheus myth is to be found in the extravagant value which a naive humanity attached to fire as the true palladium of every ascending culture.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

#### Noun

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)
* A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
* (countable) A single atom of this element.

##### Derived terms

* dioxide of palladium
* pallad-
* palladic
* palladide
* palladiferous
* palladio-
* palladious, palladous
* palladium black
* palladium chloride
* palladium cyanide
* palladium dichloride
* palladium dinitrate
* palladium hydride
* palladiumise, palladiumize
* palladium nitrate
* protoxide of palladium

##### Related terms

* Pallas

##### Translations
## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

palladium (uncountable)
* palladium

## Danish
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás) +‎ -ium.

### Noun

palladium n (singular definite palladiummet, not used in plural form)
* palladium

#### Declension
### References

* “palladium” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌpɑˈlaː.di.ʏm/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pal‧la‧di‧um

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English palladium.

#### Noun

palladium n (uncountable)
* palladium (element)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin palladium, from Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion, “statue of Pallas Athena”).

#### Noun

palladium n (plural palladia)
* (archaic) palladium, safeguard (something that guarantees protection)
** 1849, Petrus Hofstede de Groot, Is bezuiniging op het Onderwijs, voor al door opheffing eener Hoogeschool, aan te raden?, publ. by C. M. van Bolhuis Hoitsema, page 33.
    Het is toch algemeen aangenomen , dat Universiteiten de palladia der geleerdheid en beschaving zijn ; […]It is after all commonly assumed that universities are the palladia of learnedness and civilisation; […]

## Finnish
### Etymology

Internationalism (see English palladium), ultimately from Latin Palladium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑlːɑdium/, [ˈpɑ̝lːɑ̝ˌdium]
* Rhymes: -ium
* Hyphenation: pal‧la‧di‧um

### Noun

palladium
* palladium

#### Declension

Possessive forms of palladium (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
palladiumini
accusative
nom.
palladiumini
gen.
palladiumini
genitive
palladiumini
partitive
palladiumiani
inessive
palladiumissani
elative
palladiumistani
illative
palladiumiini
adessive
palladiumillani
ablative
palladiumiltani
allative
palladiumilleni
essive
palladiuminani
translative
palladiumikseni
abessive
palladiumittani
instructive
comitative
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
palladiumisi
accusative
nom.
palladiumisi
gen.
palladiumisi
genitive
palladiumisi
partitive
palladiumiasi
inessive
palladiumissasi
elative
palladiumistasi
illative
palladiumiisi
adessive
palladiumillasi
ablative
palladiumiltasi
allative
palladiumillesi
essive
palladiuminasi
translative
palladiumiksesi
abessive
palladiumittasi
instructive
comitative
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
palladiumimme
accusative
nom.
palladiumimme
gen.
palladiumimme
genitive
palladiumimme
partitive
palladiumiamme
inessive
palladiumissamme
elative
palladiumistamme
illative
palladiumiimme
adessive
palladiumillamme
ablative
palladiumiltamme
allative
palladiumillemme
essive
palladiuminamme
translative
palladiumiksemme
abessive
palladiumittamme
instructive
comitative
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
palladiuminne
accusative
nom.
palladiuminne
gen.
palladiuminne
genitive
palladiuminne
partitive
palladiumianne
inessive
palladiumissanne
elative
palladiumistanne
illative
palladiumiinne
adessive
palladiumillanne
ablative
palladiumiltanne
allative
palladiumillenne
essive
palladiuminanne
translative
palladiumiksenne
abessive
palladiumittanne
instructive
comitative
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
palladiuminsa
accusative
nom.
palladiuminsa
gen.
palladiuminsa
genitive
palladiuminsa
partitive
palladiumiaan palladiumiansa
inessive
palladiumissaan palladiumissansa
elative
palladiumistaan palladiumistansa
illative
palladiumiinsa
adessive
palladiumillaan palladiumillansa
ablative
palladiumiltaan palladiumiltansa
allative
palladiumilleen palladiumillensa
essive
palladiuminaan palladiuminansa
translative
palladiumikseen palladiumiksensa
abessive
palladiumittaan palladiumittansa
instructive
comitative

### Further reading

* “palladium”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.la.djɔm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

palladium m (uncountable)
* palladium

### Further reading

* “palladium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈlʲäd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /palˈla.di.um/, [pälˈläːd̪ium]

### Noun

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension
* palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

## Limburgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

### Noun

palladium n
* (uncountable) palladium
* a part of palladium

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

### Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)
* palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

### References

* “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas + -ium.

#### Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)
* palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

palladium n (definite singular palladiet, indefinite plural palladium, definite plural palladia)
* palladium, safeguard

### References

* “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

palladium n (uncountable)
* palladium

#### Declension
### References

* palladium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* palladium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* palladium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Svensk MeSH