Where does “uranium” come from?

Uranium derives from English Uranus, the Latin name for the Greek god οὐρανός, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -ós, a masculine nominative suffix.

uranium (English): The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a...

Definitions

  1. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a...

Ancestry of “uranium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-ium1997, Bryan Pfaffenberger, "Official Microsoft...
2Latin-umnominative neuter singular of -us; accusative...
3Proto-Italic*-om—
4Proto-Indo-European*-oHom—

Words derived from “uranium”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom →Every word from English -ium →Every word from Latin -um →