name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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pəlā'dēəm
/pəˈleɪdiəm/
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CMU ARPABET:P AH0 L EY1 D IY0 AH0 M
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
name
Meaning 1
A wooden statue of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
A safeguard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
A single atom of this element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Pd, atomic number 46
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
History
Etymology
The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.
The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.
Across languages
Translations
87 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
щит
(štit)
— a safeguard
Bulgarian:
защита
(zaštita)
— a safeguard
German:
Schutz
— a safeguard
Russian:
палла́диум
(palládium)
— a safeguard
Serbo-Croatian:
па̀ла̄диј
— a safeguard
Serbo-Croatian:
pàlādij
— a safeguard
Spanish:
paladión
— a safeguard
Afrikaans:
palladium
— chemical element
Albanian:
palad
— chemical element
Arabic:
بَلَادِيُوم
(balādiyūm)
— chemical element
Arabic:
بَالَادِيُوم
(bālādiyūm)
— chemical element
Armenian:
պալադիում
(paladium)
— chemical element
Asturian:
paladiu
— chemical element
Azerbaijani:
palladium
— chemical element
Basque:
paladioa
— chemical element
Belarusian:
пала́дый
(paládyj)
— chemical element
Breton:
palladiom
— chemical element
Bulgarian:
пала́дий
(paládij)
— chemical element
Burmese:
ပယ်လေဒီယမ်
(pailediyam)
— chemical element
Catalan:
pal·ladi
— chemical element
Chinese Cantonese:
鈀 /钯
(paa4)
— chemical element
Chinese Mandarin:
鈀 /钯
(bǎ)
— chemical element
Cornish:
paladiom
— chemical element
Czech:
palladium
— chemical element
Danish:
palladium
— chemical element
Dutch:
palladium
— chemical element
Esperanto:
paladio
— chemical element
Estonian:
pallaadium
— chemical element
Faroese:
palladium
— chemical element
Finnish:
palladium
— chemical element
French:
palladium
— chemical element
West-Frisian:
palladium
— chemical element
Friulian:
paladi
— chemical element
Galician:
paladio
— chemical element
Georgian:
პალადიუმი
(ṗaladiumi)
— chemical element
German:
Palladium
— chemical element
Greek:
παλλάδιο
(palládio)
— chemical element
Hebrew:
פָּלַדְיוּם
(paládyum)
— chemical element
Hindi:
निचूषातु
(nicūṣātu)
— chemical element
Hungarian:
palládium
— chemical element
Icelandic:
palladín
— chemical element
Interlingua:
palladium
— chemical element
Irish:
pallaidiam
— chemical element
Italian:
palladio
— chemical element
Japanese:
パラジウム
(parajiumu)
— chemical element
Kashubian:
pallôd
— chemical element
Kazakh:
палладий
(palladii)
— chemical element
Khmer:
ប៉ាឡាដ្យូម
(paalaadyoum)
— chemical element
Korean:
팔라듐
(palladyum)
— chemical element
Kyrgyz:
палладий
(palladiy)
— chemical element
Latvian:
pallādijs
— chemical element
Lithuanian:
paladis
— chemical element
Luxembourgish:
Palladium
— chemical element
Macedonian:
паладиум
(paladium)
— chemical element
Malay:
paladium
— chemical element
Maltese:
palladju
— chemical element
Manx:
pallaadjum
— chemical element
Mongolian:
паллади
(palladi)
— chemical element
Norwegian Bokmål:
palladium
— chemical element
Norwegian Nynorsk:
palladium
— chemical element
Occitan:
palladi
— chemical element
Pannonian Rusyn:
паладий
(paladij)
— chemical element
Pannonian Rusyn:
паладиюм
(paladijum)
— chemical element
Persian:
پالادیم
(pâlâdyom)
— chemical element
Polish:
pallad
— chemical element
Portuguese:
paládio
— chemical element
Romanian:
paladiu
— chemical element
Russian:
палла́дий
(palládij)
— chemical element
Scottish Gaelic:
paladium
— chemical element
Serbo-Croatian:
паладиjум
— chemical element
Serbo-Croatian:
па̀ла̄диј
— chemical element
Serbo-Croatian:
paladijum
— chemical element
Serbo-Croatian:
pàlādij
— chemical element
Slovak:
paládium
— chemical element
Slovene:
paládij
— chemical element
Spanish:
paladio
— chemical element
Swedish:
palladium
— chemical element
Tagalog:
paladyo
— chemical element
Tajik:
палладий
(palladiy)
— chemical element
Tamil:
வெண்ணிரும்பு
(veṇṇirumpu)
— chemical element
Thai:
แพลเลเดียม
(pɛɛl-lee-dîiam)
— chemical element
