Noun: aluminium
| Singular | aluminium |
| Plural | aluminiums |
Sample Sentences
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There are plenty of reasons, Australians may reason, why our nation might be exempted from the threatened next round of Trumpian tariffs, on stuff like aluminium and pharmaceuticals. [2025 February 5, Annabel Crabb, “Donald Trump didn't invent brawling about tariffs. Australia gave it a red hot go”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025:]
Nouns inflected like aluminium
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
4. Proto-Italic *-mn̥
5. Latin -men
6. Latin alūmen
7. Proto-Indo-European *-om
8. Proto-Italic *-om
9. Latin -umder.
10. English -ium
11. English aluminium
12. First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From Latin alūmen + -ium.
13. * For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.
Verbs referencing "aluminium"
Dutch Nouns
aluminium, French Nouns
aluminium, Spanish Nouns
aluminio, German Nouns
Aluminium, Finnish Nouns
alumiini, Hungarian Nouns
alumínium, Romanian Nouns
aluminiu, Portuguese Nouns
alumínio.