magnesia
English
Etymology
From Middle English magnesia, from Late Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía), after Μαγνησία (Magnēsía), a name of several cities (in Thessaly, Lydia, and Asia Minor). Doublet of Magnesia, magnesium, and manganese, and related to magnet.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌmæɡˈniʒə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Hyphenation: mag‧ne‧sia
- Rhymes: -iːʒə
Noun
magnesia (countable and uncountable, plural magnesias)
- (mineralogy) magnesium oxide
- 1875, Journal of the Bath and West of England Society and Southern Counties Association for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, volumes 7-8, page 133:
- The apocrenates of iron and manganese are slightly soluble; those of lime, magnesia and alumina are insoluble.
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Translations
Further reading
Magnesium oxide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /maɡˈneː.si.a/, [mäŋˈneːs̠iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /maɲˈɲe.si.a/, [mäɲˈɲɛːs̬iä]
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía).
Noun
magnesia m (definite singular magnesiaen, uncountable)
Derived terms
References
- “magnesia” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “magnesia” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin magnesia, from Ancient Greek μαγνησία (magnēsía).
Noun
magnesia m (definite singular magnesiaen, uncountable)
Derived terms
References
- “magnesia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαγνησία (λίθος) (Magnēsía (líthos), “(stone of) Magnesia”), name of several minerals from the region in Asia Minor.
Further reading
- “magnesia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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