cadmia

English

Etymology

From Latin cadmia (“calamine”), from Ancient Greek καδμεία (kadmeía, “calamine”). Compare calamine.

Noun

cadmia (uncountable)

  1. (mineralogy, obsolete) An oxide of zinc that collects on the sides of furnaces where zinc is sublimed. Formerly applied to the mineral
  2. (mineralogy, obsolete) Calamine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cadmia in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cadmia

  1. third-person singular past historic of cadmier

Italian

Verb

cadmia

  1. third-person singular present indicative of cadmiare
  2. second-person singular imperative of cadmiare

Latin

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek κᾰδμείᾱ, κᾰδμήᾱ, ‎κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kadmeíā, kadmḗā, ‎kadmíā, “calamine”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
cadmīa
cadmĭa

Noun

cadmī̆a f (genitive cadmī̆ae); first declension

  1. an ore of zinc, calamine, cadmia
  2. the dross or slag formed in a furnace
Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cadmī̆a cadmī̆ae
Genitive cadmī̆ae cadmī̆ārum
Dative cadmī̆ae cadmī̆īs
Accusative cadmī̆am cadmī̆ās
Ablative cadmī̆ā cadmī̆īs
Vocative cadmī̆a cadmī̆ae
Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Regularly conjugated forms of cadmium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cadmia n

  1. nominative plural of cadmium
  2. accusative plural of cadmium
  3. vocative plural of cadmium
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