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europium

noun · 2 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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  • yo͝o-rōʹpē-əm
  • Received-Pronunciation: /jʊˈɹəʊ.pɪ.əm/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /jəˈɹəʊ.pɪ.əm/
  • General-American: /juˈɹoʊ.pi.əm/
  • General-American: /jɚˈoʊ.pi.əm/
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  • rhymes with -əʊpiəm
  • CMU ARPABET: Y UH0 R OW1 P IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A metallic chemical element (symbol Eu) with an atomic number of 63.

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

a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Eu, atomic number 63

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: metallic element, metal

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French europium, from Europe + -ium.

Across languages

Translations

76 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: europium — chemical element
  • Albanian: europ — chemical element
  • Arabic: يُورُوبِّيُوم (yūrūbbiyūm) — chemical element
  • Arabic: أُورُوبِّيُوم (ʔūrūbbiyūm) — chemical element
  • Armenian: եվրոպիում (evropium) — chemical element
  • Asturian: europiu — chemical element
  • Basque: europioa — chemical element
  • Belarusian: еўро́пій (jewrópij) — chemical element
  • Breton: europiom — chemical element
  • Bulgarian: евро́пий (evrópij) — chemical element
  • Catalan: europi — chemical element
  • Chinese Mandarin: 銪 /铕 (yǒu) — chemical element
  • Cornish: europyum — chemical element
  • Czech: europium — chemical element
  • Danish: europium — chemical element
  • Dutch: europium — chemical element
  • Esperanto: eŭropio — chemical element
  • Estonian: euroopium — chemical element
  • Faroese: europium — chemical element
  • Finnish: europium — chemical element
  • French: europium — chemical element
  • West-Frisian: europium — chemical element
  • Friulian: europi — chemical element
  • Galician: europio — chemical element
  • Georgian: ევროპიუმი (evroṗiumi) — chemical element
  • German: Europium — chemical element
  • Greek: ευρώπιο (evrópio) — chemical element
  • Hebrew: אירופיום (irópyum) — chemical element
  • Hindi: किंविरला (kimvirlā) — chemical element
  • Hungarian: európium — chemical element
  • Icelandic: evropín — chemical element
  • Irish: eoraipiam — chemical element
  • Italian: europio — chemical element
  • Japanese: ユウロピウム (yūropiumu) — chemical element
  • Kashubian: europ — chemical element
  • Kazakh: еуропий (europii) — chemical element
  • Khmer: អឺរ៉ូព្យ៉ូម (ʼəɨroupyuum) — chemical element
  • Korean: 유로퓸 (yuropyum) — chemical element
  • Kyrgyz: европий (yevropiy) — chemical element
  • Latin: europium — chemical element
  • Latvian: eiropijs — chemical element
  • Lithuanian: europis — chemical element
  • Luxembourgish: Europium — chemical element
  • Macedonian: европиум (evropium) — chemical element
  • Malay: europium — chemical element
  • Malay: eropium — chemical element
  • Maltese: uropjum — chemical element
  • Manx: oarpium — chemical element
  • Mongolian: ебропи (jebropi) — chemical element
  • Norwegian: europium — chemical element
  • Persian: یوروپیم — chemical element
  • Polish: europ — chemical element
  • Portuguese: európio — chemical element
  • Romanian: europiu — chemical element
  • Russian: евро́пий (jevrópij) — chemical element
  • Scottish Gaelic: eoraipiam — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: еуропијум — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: еуропиј — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: europijum — chemical element
  • Serbo-Croatian: europij — chemical element
  • Slovak: európium — chemical element
  • Slovene: evropij — chemical element
  • Spanish: europio — chemical element
  • Swedish: europium — chemical element
  • Tajik: европий (yevropiy) — chemical element
  • Tamil: யூரோப்பியம் (yūrōppiyam) — chemical element
  • Thai: ยูโรเพียม (yuu-roo-pîiam) — chemical element
  • Turkish: europyum — chemical element
  • Turkish: evropiyum — chemical element
  • Turkish: avrupyum — chemical element
  • Ukrainian: євро́пій (jevrópij) — chemical element
  • Uzbek: evropiy — chemical element
  • Uzbek: европий (evropiy) — chemical element
  • Vietnamese: europi — chemical element
  • Volapük: löropin — chemical element
  • Welsh: ewropiwm — chemical element