chromium

See also: Chromium

English

Chemical element (edit)
Cr Atomic number 24 chromium
Classification data Period 4 Group 6 Block d-block Class transition metal
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Next: manganese (Mn) →
English Wikipedia article on Chromium

Chromium crystals and cube.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *kʰrṓwmə

Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma)bor.

French chrome

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

New Latin chromiumbor.

English chromium

From New Latin, from French chrome (from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”)) + -ium. So called because of the striking colors of its compounds.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: krō'mē-əm; IPA^(key): /ˈkɹoʊ.mi.əm/

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Noun

chromium (countable and uncountable, plural chromiums)

2. A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal.

Synonyms

• chrome (when used for plating)

Derived terms

• Chromel
• chromiferous
• chromium-52
• chromium-53
• chromium-54
• chromium carbide
• chromium dioxide
• chromium group
• chromium oxide
• chromium plate
• chromium-plated
• chromium plating
• chromium sesquioxide
• chromium trichloride
• chromium trifluoride
• chromium trioxide
• chromo-
• chromoly
• dichromium
• ferrochromium
• nonchromium
• organochromium
• proto-chromium
• radiochromium

Related terms

• chroma
• chromate
• chrome
• chromic
• chromite
• chromo-
• chromous
• panchromium

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: chroom (af)
• Albanian: krom (sq) m
• Arabic: كُرُوم m (kurūm)
• Armenian: քրոմ (hy) (kʻrom)
• Asturian: cromu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: xrom
• Basque: kromoa
• Belarusian: хром m (xrom)
• Breton: krom (br) m
• Bulgarian: хром (bg) m (hrom)
• Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် (hka.ruimiyam)
• Catalan: crom (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉻 / 铬 (zh) (gè)

• Cornish: cromyum
• Czech: chrom (cs) m
• Danish: krom (da) n
• Dutch: chroom (nl) n
• Esperanto: kromo (eo)
• Estonian: kroom (et)
• Faroese: krom n
• Finnish: kromi (fi)
• French: chrome (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: groom

• Friulian: crom
• Galician: cromo (gl) m
• Georgian: ქრომი (kromi)
• German: Chrom (de) n
• Greek: χρώμιο (el) n (chrómio)
• Greenlandic: kromi
• Gujarati: વર્ણાતુ (varṇātu)
• Hebrew: כְּרוֹם (he) m (krom)
• Hindi: वर्णातु (varṇātu), क्रोमियम (kromiyam)
• Hungarian: króm (hu)
• Icelandic: króm (is) n
• Ido: kromo (io)
• Interlingua: chromo
• Irish: cróimiam (ga) m
• Italian: cromo (it) m
• Japanese: クロム (ja) (kuromu)
• Kashubian: chróm m
• Kazakh: хром (xrom)
• Khmer: ក្រូម (kroum)
• Korean: 크롬 (ko) (keurom), 크로뮴 (ko) (keuromyum)
• Kyrgyz: хром (ky) (hrom)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: chrōmium (la) n
• Latvian: hroms m
• Lingala: kolomo class 9a/10a
• Lithuanian: chromas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Chrom
• Macedonian: хром (mk) m (hrom)
• Malay: kromium (ms)
• Maltese: kromju
• Manx: cromium
• Māori: koromiama, konupūmura, konukita
• Mongolian: хром (mn) (xrom)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krom (no) n

  Nynorsk: krom (nn) n

• Occitan: cròme (oc) m
• Persian: کروم (fa) (korom)
• Polish: chrom (pl) m
• Portuguese: cromo (pt) m, crómio (pt) m, crômio (pt) m
• Romanian: crom (ro) n
• Russian: хром (ru) m inan (xrom)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can

• Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хро̏м m

  Latin: hrȍm (sh) m, krȍm (sh) m (Croatian)

• Slovak: chróm (sk) n
• Slovene: krom (sl) m inan
• Spanish: cromo (es) m
• Swahili: chromi
• Swedish: krom (sv) n
• Tagalog: kromo
• Tajik: хром (xrom)
• Tamil: நீலிரும்பு (nīlirumpu), குரோமியம் (ta) (kurōmiyam)
• Thai: โครเมียม (th) (kroo-mîiam)
• Tibetan: ཚོན་ལྕགས (tshon lcags, literally “colored iron”)
• Turkish: krom (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قروم (qrōm, qırōm, qurōm)

• Turkmen: hrom
• Ukrainian: хром m (xrom)
• Urdu: کرومیم (kromiyam)
• Uyghur: خروم (xrom)
• Uzbek: xrom (uz)

  Cyrillic: хром (uz) (xrom)

• Vietnamese: crôm
• Volapük: kromin (vo)
• Welsh: cromiwm (cy)
• Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (kroumyam)

See also

• green rouge

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2026), “Chromium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “chromium”, in Mindat.org, Keswick, Va.: Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2026.
• “chromium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “chromium”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “chromium”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Latin

Chemical element (edit)
Cr Atomic number 24 chromium
Classification data Period 4 Group 6 Block d-block Class transition metal
Previous: ← vanadium (V)
Next: manganum (Mn) →
Latin Wikipedia article on Chromium

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *kʰrṓwmə

Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma)bor.

French chrome

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Latin chrōmium

From French chrome + Latin -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʰroː.mi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkrɔː.mi.um]

Noun

chrōmium n (genitive chrōmiī); second declension

1. chromium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	chrōmium	chrōmia
genitive	chrōmiī	chrōmiōrum
dative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
accusative	chrōmium	chrōmia
ablative	chrōmiō	chrōmiīs
vocative	chrōmium	chrōmia

Descendants

• → Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် (hka.ruimiyam)
• → Chinese: 鉻 / 铬 (gè)
• → Cornish: cromyum
• → English: chromium
• → Greek: χρώμιο (chrómio)
• → Hindi: क्रोमियम (kromiyam)
• → Irish: cróimiam
• → Korean: 크로뮴 (keuromyum)
• → Malay: kromium
• → Maltese: kromju
• → Manx: cromium
• → Māori: koromiama
• → Portuguese: crómio, crômio
• → Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam
• → Swahili: chromi
• → Thai: โครเมียม (kroo-mîiam)
• → Urdu: کرومیم (kromiyam)
• → Welsh: cromiwm
• → Yiddish: קראָומיאַם (kroumyam)