Where does “sodium” come from?
Sodium derives from the English soda, from Italian soda, from Latin sodanum, from Proto-Italic -os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós.
sodium (English): The chemical element with an atomic number of 11...
Definitions
- The chemical element with an atomic number of 11...
Ancestry of “sodium”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ium | 1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft... |
| 2 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |
Words derived from “sodium”