Where does “gadolinium” come from?

gadolinium (Malay) comes from English gadolinium, from Finnish Gadolin, from Latin gadolinium — gadolinium.

gadolinium (Malay): gadolinium chemical element

Definitions

  1. gadolinium chemical element

Ancestry of “gadolinium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgadoliniumA chemical element with atomic number 64: a...
2FinnishGadolin
3Latingadoliniumgadolinium
Every word from Latin gadoliniumEvery word from Finnish GadolinEvery word from English gadolinium
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