xenon

See also: Xenon, xénon, xenón, and xênon

English

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← iodine (I)
Next: caesium (Cs) →
English Wikipedia article on Xenon

Etymology

Etymology tree

Pre-Greekder.

Proto-Hellenic *ksénwos

Ancient Greek ξένϝος (xénwos)

Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos)

Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?

Latin carbōnemlbor.

French carbonebor.

English carbonbf.

English -on

English xenon

From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + -on, used for all noble gases.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈziːnɒn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈzinɑn/, /ˈzinən/, /ˈzɛnɑn/

• Audio (US); /ˈzɛnɑn/:

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• Audio (US); /ˈzinɑn/:

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• Audio (US); /ˈzinən/:

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -iːnɒn
• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon (usually uncountable, plural xenons)

1. The chemical element (symbol Xe) with an atomic number of 54. It is a colorless, odorless, unreactive noble gas, used notably in camera flash technology.

Derived terms

• dixenon
• nonxenon
• organoxenon
• perxenate
• radioxenon
• tetraxenon
• tetraxenonogold
• xenic
• xenide
• xenon arc
• xenon arc lamp
• xenon chloride
• xenon difluoride
• xenon flash lamp
• xenon fluoride
• xenon hexafluoride
• xenon hexafluoroplatinate
• xenonide
• xenon lamp
• xenon light
• xenon tetrafluoride
• xenon tetroxide
• xenon trioxide

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: xenon (af)
• Albanian: ksenon
• Arabic: إِكْسِينُون m (ʔiksīnūn), زِينُون m (zīnūn)
• Armenian: քսենոն (hy) (kʻsenon)
• Asturian: xenón (ast) m
• Basque: xenona
• Belarusian: ксэнон m (ksenón)
• Breton: ksenon
• Bulgarian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Catalan: xenó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氙 (zh) (xiān)

• Cornish: xenon
• Crimean Tatar: ksenon
• Czech: xenon (cs) m
• Danish: xenon (da) c or n
• Dutch: xenon (nl) n
• Esperanto: ksenono (eo)
• Estonian: ksenoon (et)
• Faroese: xenon
• Finnish: ksenon (fi)
• French: xénon (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: xenon

• Friulian: xenon
• Galician: xenon (gl) m
• Georgian: ქსენონი (ka) (ksenoni)
• German: Xenon (de) n
• Greek: ξένο (el) n (xéno)
• Hebrew: קסנון (he) (ksinón)
• Hindi: कोटयाति (koṭyāti)
• Hungarian: xenon (hu)
• Icelandic: xenon (is) n
• Ido: xenio (io)
• Interlingua: xenon
• Irish: xeanón m
• Italian: xenon (it) m, xeno (it) m
• Japanese: キセノン (ja) (kisenon)
• Kashubian: ksenón
• Kazakh: ксенон (kk) (ksenon)
• Korean: 크세논 (ko) (keusenon), 제논 (jenon)
• Latin: xenon (la)
• Latvian: ksenons
• Lithuanian: ksenònas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Xenon
• Macedonian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Malay: xenon (ms)
• Maltese: żenon
• Manx: xenon
• Mongolian: ксенон (ksenon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: xenon n

  Nynorsk: xenon (nn) n

• Occitan: xenon (oc) m
• Persian: زنون (fa)
• Polish: ksenon (pl) m
• Portuguese: xenônio (pt) m (Brazil), xenónio (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: xenon (ro) n
• Russian: ксено́н (ru) m (ksenón)
• Scottish Gaelic: xeanon
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ксѐно̄н m

  Latin: ksènōn (sh) m

• Slovak: xenón (sk)
• Slovene: ksenon (sl)
• Spanish: xenón (es) m
• Swedish: xenon (sv) n
• Tajik: ksenon
• Tamil: செனன் (ceṉaṉ)
• Thai: ซีนอน (sii-nɔ̂n)
• Turkish: ksenon (tr)
• Ukrainian: ксенон m (ksenon)
• Uzbek: ксенон (uz) (ksenon)
• Vietnamese: xenon (vi)
• Volapük: xenonin (vo)
• Welsh: xenon

References

• Xenon on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Anagrams

• xenno-, Noxen

Afrikaans

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← jodium (I)
Next: sesium (Cs) →

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon (uncountable)

1. xenon

Hypernyms

• edelgas

Czech

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← jód (I)
Next: cesium (Cs) →

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈksɛnon]

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): [ˈksɛnoːn]
• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon m inan

1. xenon

Declension

Declension of xenon (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	xenon	xenony
genitive	xenonu	xenonů
dative	xenonu	xenonům
accusative	xenon	xenony
vocative	xenone	xenony
locative	xenonu	xenonech
instrumental	xenonem	xenony

Danish

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← iod (I)
Next: cæsium (Cs) →

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon).

Noun

xenon c or n (definite singular xenonen or xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (element, chemical symbol Xe)

Declension

Declension of xenon

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	xenon	xenonen xenonet
genitive	xenons	xenonens xenonets

References

• “xenon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← jodium (I)
Next: cesium (Cs) →

Etymology

Borrowed from English xenon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkseː.nɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: xe‧non

Noun

xenon n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. xenon

Derived terms

• xenongas

Galician

Noun

xenon m (uncountable)

1. xenon

Hungarian

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← jód (I)
Next: cézium (Cs) →

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈksɛnon]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: xe‧non
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

xenon (usually uncountable, plural xenonok)

1. xenon (chemical element)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	xenon	xenonok
accusative	xenont	xenonokat
dative	xenonnak	xenonoknak
instrumental	xenonnal	xenonokkal
causal-final	xenonért	xenonokért
translative	xenonná	xenonokká
terminative	xenonig	xenonokig
essive-formal	xenonként	xenonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	xenonban	xenonokban
superessive	xenonon	xenonokon
adessive	xenonnál	xenonoknál
illative	xenonba	xenonokba
sublative	xenonra	xenonokra
allative	xenonhoz	xenonokhoz
elative	xenonból	xenonokból
delative	xenonról	xenonokról
ablative	xenontól	xenonoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	xenoné	xenonoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	xenonéi	xenonokéi

Possessive forms of xenon

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	xenonom	xenonjaim
2nd person sing.	xenonod	xenonjaid
3rd person sing.	xenonja	xenonjai
1st person plural	xenonunk	xenonjaink
2nd person plural	xenonotok	xenonjaitok
3rd person plural	xenonjuk	xenonjaik

Derived terms

• xenon villanólámpa

Icelandic

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← joð (I)
Next: sesín (Cs) →

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Noun

xenon n (genitive singular xenons, no plural)

1. xenon (chemical element)

Declension

Declension of xenon (sg-only neuter)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	xenon	xenonið
accusative	xenon	xenonið
dative	xenoni	xenoninu
genitive	xenons	xenonsins

Further reading

• “xenon” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Latin

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← iodium, iodum (I)
Next: caesium (Cs) →
Latin Wikipedia article on Xenon

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), which is the neuter of ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈksɛ.nɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈksɛː.non]

Noun

xenon n (genitive xenī); second declension

1. xenon

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	xenon	xena
genitive	xenī	xenōrum
dative	xenō	xenīs
accusative	xenon	xena
ablative	xenō	xenīs
vocative	xenon	xena

References

• “xenon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “xenon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “xenon”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “xenon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Malay

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← iodin (I)
Next: sesium, cesium (Cs) →

Etymology

From English xenon, from Ancient Greek ξένον (xénon), neuter of ξένος (xénos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [zenɔn], [zinɔn]
• Rhymes: -nɔn, -ɔn
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

xenon

1. xenon (chemical element)

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian xenon.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈxeːnon/

Noun

xēnon

1. xenon

Inflection

Odd, no gradation
Nominative	xēnon
Genitive	xēnona
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	xēnon	xēnonat
Accusative	xēnona	xēnoniid
Genitive	xēnona	xēnoniid
Illative	xēnonii	xēnoniidda
Locative	xēnonis	xēnoniin
Comitative	xēnoniin	xēnoniiguin
Essive	xēnonin
Possessive forms Singular Dual Plural 1st person xēnonan xēnoneamẹ xēnoneamẹt 2nd person xēnonat xēnoneattẹ xēnoneattẹt 3rd person xēnonis xēnoneaskkạ xēnoneasẹt

Further reading

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

xenon n (definite singular xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (element, chemical symbol Xe)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

xenon n (definite singular xenonet, singulare tantum)

1. xenon (as above)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French xénon or German Xenon.

Noun

xenon n (uncountable)

1. xenon

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	xenon	xenonul
genitive-dative	xenon	xenonului
vocative	xenonule

Swedish

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← jod (I)
Next: cesium (Cs) →

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

xenon n (uncountable)

1. xenon

Declension

Declension of xenon

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	xenon	xenons
	definite	xenonet	xenonets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• xenonlampa

References

• “xenon”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “xenon”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “xenon”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Vietnamese

Chemical element (edit)
Xe Atomic number 54 xenon
Classification data Period 5 Group 18 Block p-block Class noble gas
Previous: ← iot (I)
Next: xesi (Cs) →

Etymology

From French xénon, from English xenon.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [se˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [sej˧˧ nəwŋ͡m˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: xê nông

Noun

xenon

1. xenon