Where does “cerium” come from?
Cerium is a modern English coinage from Latin Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European ḱer- meaning to grow or create.
cerium (English): A chemical element with an atomic number of 58,...
Definitions
- A chemical element with an atomic number of 58,...
Ancestry of “cerium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Ceres | a recently discovered asteroid; Roman goddess of... |
| 2 | Latin | Cerēs | Ceres goddess of agriculture |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | kerēs | Ceres |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱerēs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |