Where does “vanadium” come from?

vanadium (Malay) comes from English vanadium, from New Latin vanadium, from Old Norse Vanadis.

vanadium (Malay): vanadium chemical element

Definitions

  1. vanadium chemical element

Ancestry of “vanadium”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishvanadiumA chemical element with atomic number 23; it is...
2New Latinvanadiumvanadium
3Old NorseVanadis—
Every word from Old Norse Vanadis →
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