calcium

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• US: /ˈkælsi.əm/
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• South-Asia: /ˈkalʃɪəm/
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• Philippines: /ˈkæl.ʃum/
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Etymology tree Latin calx Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Italic *-om Latin -umder. English -ium English calcium Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1808, from Latin calx (“lime, limestone”) because it occurs in limestone. By surface analysis, calc- + -ium.

106 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Albanian: kalcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Arabic: كَلْسِيُوم (kalsiyūm) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Arabic: كَالْسِيُوم (kālsiyūm) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Arabic: كالسيوم (kālsyum) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Armenian: կալցիում (kalcʻium) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Asturian: calciu — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Basque: kaltzio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Belarusian: ка́льцый (kálʹcyj) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Belarusian: вапень (vapień) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Breton: kalsiom — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Breton: kalkiom — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Bulgarian: ка́лций (kálcij) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Catalan: calci — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Chinese Cantonese: 鈣 /钙 (koi3) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Chinese Mandarin: 鈣 /钙 (gài) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Cornish: calcyum — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Corsican: calciu — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Czech: vápník — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Danish: kalcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Danish: calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Dutch: calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Esperanto: kalcio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Estonian: kaltsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Faroese: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Finnish: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• French: calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• West-Frisian: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Friulian: calci — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Galician: calcio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Georgian: კალციუმი (ḳalciumi) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• German: Kalzium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• German: Calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Greek: ασβέστιο (asvéstio) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hausa: alli — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hawaiian: puna — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hebrew: סידן (sidán) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hebrew: קלציום (qáltzium) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hindi: चूर्णातु (cūrṇātu) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Hungarian: kalcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Icelandic: kalsín — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Indonesian: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Indonesian: zat kapur — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Interlingua: calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Inuktitut: ᓴᐅᓂᒃᓴᖅ (saoniksaq) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Irish: cailciam — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Italian: calcio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Japanese: カルシウム (karushiumu) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Japanese: 石灰素 (sekkaiso) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Kashubian: kalcéń — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Kazakh: кальций (kalsii) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Khmer: កាល់ស្យូម (kalsyoum) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Korean: 칼슘 (kalsyum) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Latin: calcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Latvian: kalcijs — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Lingala: kalisu class 9a/10a — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Lithuanian: kalcis — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Luxembourgish: Kalzium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Macedonian: калциум (kalcium) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Malagasy: diontsokay — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Malay: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Malay: zat kapur — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Malayalam: കാൽസ്യം (kālsyaṁ) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Maltese: kalċju — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Manx: kelkium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Māori: konupūmā — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Mongolian: кальци (kalʹci) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Mongolian: ᠺᠠᠯᠢᠼᠢ (kalici) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Mongolian: ᠺᠠᠯᠼ (kalc) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Navajo: káálsiiyin — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Norwegian Bokmål: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Occitan: calci — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Persian: کلسیم (kalsiom) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Plautdietsch: Kaltsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Pohnpeian: kalsium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Polish: wapń — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Portuguese: cálcio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Romanian: calciu — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Russian: ка́льций (kálʹcij) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Sanskrit: छौरेय (chaureya) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Santali: ᱠᱮᱞᱥᱤᱭᱟᱢ (kelsiyam) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Scottish Gaelic: cailceam — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Serbo-Croatian: калциjум — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Serbo-Croatian: калциj — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Serbo-Croatian: kalcijum — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Serbo-Croatian: kalcij — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Slovak: vápnik — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Slovene: kalcij — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Spanish: calcio — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Swahili: kalisiamu — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Swedish: kalcium — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Tagalog: kalsiyo — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Tajik: калсий (kalsiy) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Tamil: சுண்ணியம் (cuṇṇiyam) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Tamil: கால்சியம் (kālciyam) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Telugu: సున్నము (sunnamu) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Thai: แคลเซียม (kɛɛl-sîiam) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Turkish: kalsiyum — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Ukrainian: ка́льцій (kálʹcij) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Urdu: چورناتہ (cūrṇātu) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Uzbek: кальций (kal'tsiy) — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Vietnamese: canxi — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Volapük: kalsin — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Welsh: calsiwm — chemical element of atomic number 20
• Yiddish: קאַלציום (kaltsyum) — chemical element of atomic number 20