Where does “rubidium” come from?

rubidium (Malay) comes from English rubidium, from New Latin rubidium, from Latin rubidus, from Latin -idus, from Proto-Italic *-iðos.

rubidium (Malay): rubidium element with atomic number 37

Definitions

  1. rubidium element with atomic number 37

Ancestry of “rubidium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrubidiumThe chemical element with an atomic number of...
2New Latinrubidiumrubidium
3Latinrubidusred
4Latin-idustending to
5Proto-Italic*-iðos—
Every word from Proto-Italic *-iðos →Every word from Latin -idus →Every word from Latin rubidus →