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beryllium

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • bərĭl'ēəm
  • /bəˈɹɪl.i.əm/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An atom of this element.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Be, glucinium, atomic number 4

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metallic element, metal

History

Etymology

From beryl + -ium, so called because the element is a key component of the mineral beryl.

Across languages

Translations

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: berillium — chemical element
  • Albanian: berilium — chemical element
  • Arabic: بِرِيلِيُوم (birīliyūm) — chemical element
  • Armenian: բերիլիում (berilium) — chemical element
  • Asturian: beriliu — chemical element
  • Azerbaijani: berillium — chemical element
  • Basque: berilioa — chemical element
  • Belarusian: беры́лій (bjerýlij) — chemical element
  • Bengali: বেরিলিয়াম (beriliẏam) — chemical element
  • Breton: beriliom — chemical element
  • Bulgarian: бери́лий (berílij) — chemical element
  • Burmese: ဘယ်ရီလီယမ် (bhairiliyam) — chemical element
  • Catalan: beril·li — chemical element
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鈹 /铍 (pei4) — chemical element
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 鈹 /铍 (pì) — chemical element
  • Hakka Chinese: 鈹 /铍 (phì) — chemical element
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鈹 /铍 (pí) — chemical element
  • Chuvash: берилий (berilij) — chemical element
  • Cornish: berylyum — chemical element
  • Corsican: berilliu — chemical element
  • Czech: berylium — chemical element
  • Danish: beryllium — chemical element
  • Dutch: beryllium — chemical element
  • Esperanto: berilio — chemical element
  • Estonian: berüllium — chemical element
  • Faroese: beryllium — chemical element
  • Finnish: beryllium — chemical element
  • French: béryllium — chemical element
  • Saterland Frisian: beryllium — chemical element
  • West-Frisian: beryllium — chemical element
  • Friulian: berili — chemical element
  • Galician: berilio — chemical element
  • Georgian: ბერილიუმი (beriliumi) — chemical element
  • German: Beryllium — chemical element
  • Greek: βηρύλλιο (virýllio) — chemical element
  • Haitian Creole: berilyòm — chemical element
  • Hawaiian: beryllium — chemical element
  • Hebrew: בֵּרִילְיוּם (berilium) — chemical element
  • Hindi: विडूर (viḍūr) — chemical element
  • Hungarian: berillium — chemical element
  • Icelandic: beryllín — chemical element
  • Ido: berilio — chemical element
  • Indonesian: berilium — chemical element
  • Interlingua: beryllium — chemical element
  • Irish: beirilliam — chemical element
  • Italian: berillio — chemical element
  • Japanese: ベリリウム (beririumu) — chemical element
  • Kabuverdianu: beríliu — chemical element
  • Kabuverdianu: beríliu — chemical element
  • Kabuverdianu: beríliu — chemical element
  • Kabuverdianu: berílio — chemical element
  • Kannada: ಬೆರಿಲಿಯಮ್ (beriliyam) — chemical element
  • Kashubian: beril — chemical element
  • Kazakh: бериллий (berillii) — chemical element
  • Khmer: បេរីល្យូម (beeriilyuum) — chemical element
  • Korean: 베릴륨 (berillyum) — chemical element
  • Northern Kurdish: berîlyûm — chemical element
  • Kyrgyz: бериллий (berilliy) — chemical element
  • Lao: ເບລິລະລຽມ (bē li la līam) — chemical element
  • Latin: beryllium — chemical element
  • Latvian: berilijs — chemical element
  • Lingala: belilu class 9a/10a — chemical element
  • Lithuanian: berilis — chemical element
  • Low German: beryllium — chemical element
  • Luxembourgish: Beryllium — chemical element
  • Macedonian: берилиум (berilium) — chemical element
  • Malay: berilium — chemical element
  • Malayalam: ബെറിലിയം (beṟiliyaṁ) — chemical element
  • Maltese: berillju — chemical element
  • Manx: beryllium — chemical element
  • Māori: konuuku — chemical element
  • Mongolian: берилли (berilli) — chemical element
  • Mongolian: берили (berili) — chemical element
  • Mongolian: ᠪᠧᠷᠢᠯᠯᠢ (bērilli) — chemical element
  • Mongolian: ᠪᠧᠷᠢᠯᠢ (bērili) — chemical element
  • Nahuatl: iztactlāltepoztli — chemical element
  • Norwegian Bokmål: beryllium — chemical element
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: beryllium — chemical element
  • Occitan: berilli — chemical element
  • Persian: بریلیوم (beriliyom) — chemical element
  • Polish: beryl — chemical element
  • Portuguese: berílio — chemical element
  • Punjabi: ਬੇਰਿਲੀਅਮ (berilīama) — chemical element
  • Quechua: berilyu — chemical element
  • Romanian: beriliu — chemical element
  • Russian: бери́ллий (beríllij) — chemical element
  • Scottish Gaelic: beirilliam — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: берилиjум — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: берилиj — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: berilijum — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: berilij — chemical element
  • Sinhalese: බෙරිලියම් (beriliyam) — chemical element
  • Slovak: berýlium — chemical element
  • Slovene: berilij — chemical element
  • Spanish: berilio — chemical element
  • Swahili: berili — chemical element
  • Swedish: beryllium — chemical element
  • Tagalog: berilyo — chemical element
  • Tajik: бериллий (berilliy) — chemical element
  • Tamil: வெளிரியம் (veḷiriyam) — chemical element
  • Thai: เบริลเลียม (bee-ril-lîiam) — chemical element
  • Tibetan: བེ་རི་ལིམ། (be ri lim) — chemical element
  • Turkish: berilyum — chemical element
  • Turkmen: berilliý — chemical element
  • Ukrainian: бери́лій (berýlij) — chemical element
  • Urdu: بیریلیم (berelem) — chemical element
  • Uyghur: بېرىللىي (bërilliy) — chemical element
  • Uzbek: berilliy — chemical element
  • Uzbek: бериллий (berilliy) — chemical element
  • Vietnamese: berili — chemical element
  • Vietnamese: beri — chemical element
  • Volapük: berilin — chemical element
  • Welsh: beryliwm — chemical element
  • Yiddish: בעריליום (berilyum) — chemical element