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Where does “aluminide” come from?

aluminide (English) comes from English aluminium, from Latin alūmen, from English -ium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.

aluminide (English): Any intermetallic compound of aluminium and a...

Definitions

  1. Any intermetallic compound of aluminium and a...

Ancestry of “aluminide”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaluminiumA light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite,...
2Latinalūmen—
3English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
4Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
5Proto-Italic*-om—
6Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—
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