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English Chromium crystals and cube.
Etymology From New Latin French chrome Ancient Greek χρῶμα ( khrôma , “ color ” ) ) + -ium
Pronunciation
Noun chromium (countable and uncountable plural chromiums
A chemical element (symbol Cr) with an atomic number of 24: a steely-grey, lustrous, hard and brittle transition metal .
Synonyms chrome ( when used for plating )
Derived terms
Translations chemical element
Afrikaans: chroom (af)
Albanian: krom (sq) m
Arabic: كْرُوم m ( krūm )
Armenian: քրոմ (hy) ( kʻrom )
Asturian: cromu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: xrom
Basque: kromoa
Belarusian: хром m ( xrom )
Breton: krom (br) m
Bulgarian: хром (bg) m ( hrom )
Burmese: ခရိုမီယမ် ( hka.ruimiyam )
Catalan: crom (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鉻 / 铬 (zh) ( gè )
Cornish: cromyum
Czech: chrom (cs) m
Danish: krom (da) n
Dutch: chroom (nl) n
Esperanto: kromo (eo)
Estonian: kroom (et)
Faroese: krom n
Finnish: kromi (fi)
French: chrome (fr) m
Friulian: crom
Galician: cromo (gl) m
Georgian: ქრომი ( kromi )
German: Chrom (de) n
Greek: χρώμιο (el) n ( chrómio )
Greenlandic: kromi
Gujarati: વર્ણાતુ ( varṇātu )
Hebrew: כְּרוֹם (he) m ( krom )
Hindi: वर्णातु ( varṇātu ) , क्रोमियम ( kromiyam )
Hungarian: króm (hu)
Icelandic: króm (is) n
Ido: kromo (io)
Interlingua: chromo
Irish: cróimiam (ga) m
Italian: cromo (it) m
Japanese: クロム (ja) ( kuromu )
Kashubian: chróm m
Kazakh: хром ( xrom )
Khmer: ក្រូម ( kroum )
Korean: 크롬 (ko) ( keurom ) , 크로뮴 (ko) ( keuromyum )
Kyrgyz: хром (ky) ( hrom )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: chrōmium (la) n
Latvian: hroms m
Lingala: kolomo class 9a /10a
Lithuanian: chromas (lt) m
Luxembourgish: Chrom
Macedonian: хром (mk) m ( hrom )
Malay: kromium (ms)
Maltese: kromju
Manx: cromium
Maori: koromiama konupūmura konukita
Mongolian: хром (mn) ( xrom )
Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krom (no) n
Nynorsk: krom (nn) n
Occitan: cròme (oc) m
Ottoman Turkish: قروم ( qrōm, qırōm, qurōm )
Persian: کروم (fa) ( korom )
Polish: chrom (pl) m
Portuguese: cromo (pt) m crómio (pt) m crômio (pt) m
Romanian: crom (ro) n
Russian: хром (ru) m inan ( xrom )
Scottish Gaelic: cròimiam
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хро̏м m
Roman: hrȍm (sh) m krȍm (sh) m ( Croatian )
Slovak: chróm n
Slovene: krom (sl) m inan
Spanish: cromo (es) m
Swahili: chromi
Swedish: krom (sv) n
Tagalog: kromo
Tajik: хром ( xrom )
Tamil: நீலிரும்பு ( nīlirumpu )
Thai: โครเมียม (th) ( kroo-mîiam )
Tibetan: ཚོན་ལྕགས ( tshon lcags , literally “ colored iron ” )
Turkish: krom (tr)
Turkmen: hrom
Ukrainian: хром m ( xrom )
Urdu: کرومیم ( kromiyam )
Uyghur: خروم ( xrom )
Uzbek: xrom (uz)
Cyrillic: хром (uz) ( xrom )
Vietnamese: crôm
Volapük: kromin (vo)
Welsh: cromiwm (cy)
West Frisian: groom
Yiddish: קראָומיאַם ( kroumyam )
See also
Further reading David Barthelmy (1997–2025 ) “Chromium ”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database . “chromium ”, in Mindat.org 2000–2025 “chromium ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC William Dwight Whitney , Benjamin E Smith , editors (1911 ), “chromium ”, in The Century Dictionary The Century Co. , →OCLC “chromium ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Latin
Etymology French chrome -ium
Pronunciation
Noun chrōmium n genitive chrōmiī second declension
chromium
Declension Second-declension noun (neuter).
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