elohopea
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Finnish
Etymology
elo (“living”) + hopea (“silver”), perhaps a calque of Latin argentum vivum (literally “living silver”). Coined by Finnish folk poetry researcher, translator and journalist Julius Krohn in 1860.
Pronunciation
Noun
elohopea
- mercury, quicksilver (Hg)
- (figuratively) thermometer (in which the level of mercury indicates temperature)
- Elohopea näyttää kahtakymmentä astetta.
- The thermometer reading is twenty degrees.
- (literally, “The mercury indicates twenty degrees.”)
- (figuratively) lively thing or person, especially a child
Declension
| Inflection of elohopea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
| genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten | |
| partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
| illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
| accusative | nom. | elohopea | elohopeat |
| gen. | elohopean | ||
| genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten elohopeain rare | |
| partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
| inessive | elohopeassa | elohopeissa | |
| elative | elohopeasta | elohopeista | |
| illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
| adessive | elohopealla | elohopeilla | |
| ablative | elohopealta | elohopeilta | |
| allative | elohopealle | elohopeille | |
| essive | elohopeana | elohopeina | |
| translative | elohopeaksi | elohopeiksi | |
| abessive | elohopeatta | elohopeitta | |
| instructive | — | elohopein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- (mercury): Category:fi:Chemical elements, Category:fi:Metals
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “elohopea”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02