palladium

• enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA^(key): /pəˈleɪdiəm/

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an alternative name for Athena.

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.
   • Blackstone

     The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

palladium (countable and uncountable, plural palladiums)

1. A metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

• Pallas

palladium (uncountable)

1. palladium

palladium

1. palladium

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palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium

palladium

1. palladium

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.djɔm/

palladium m (uncountable)

1. palladium

• “palladium” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Ancient Greek παλλάδιον (palládion), neuter of παλλάδιος (palládios), Παλλάς (Pallás, “of Pallas”). See Pallas.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /palˈla.di.um/, [palˈla.di.ũ]

palladium n (genitive palladiī); second declension

1. palladium, one of perhaps several statues of Athena, as in the Iliad and Aeneid, believed to safeguard Troy, and later, various Italian cities

Second declension.

• IPA^(key): [pəˈlaː˨ɖɔ˧m]

palladium n

1. (uncountable) palladium
2. a part of palladium

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas +‎ -ium

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

• “palladium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “palladium_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Named after the asteroid 2 Pallas +‎ -ium

palladium n (definite singular palladiumet, uncountable)

1. palladium, chemical element, symbol Pd

• “palladium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlɑːdɪɵm/

palladium n (uncountable)

1. palladium