aluminium的词源
英文词源
- aluminium
- aluminium: [19] Aluminium comes from a coinage by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy, who discovered the metal. His first suggestion was alumium, which he put forward in Volume 98 of the Transactions of the Royal Society 1808: ‘Had I been so fortunate as … to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium’.
He based it on Latin alūmen ‘alum’ (alum is a sulphate of aluminium, and the word alum, a 14th-century borrowing from French, derives ultimately from alūmen; alumina is an oxide of aluminium, and the word alumina is a modern Latin formation based on alūmen, which entered English at the end of the 18th century); and alūmen may be linked with Latin alūta ‘skins dried for making leather, using alum’.
Davy soon changed his mind, however, and in 1812 put forward the term aluminum – which remains the word used in American English to this day. British English, though, has preferred the form aluminium, which was mooted contemporaneously with aluminum on grounds of classical ‘correctness’: ‘Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound’, Quarterly Review 1812.
=> alum - aluminium
- see aluminum.
中文词源
发音释义：[æl(j)ʊ'mɪnɪəm] n. 铝
结构分析：aluminium = alum（矾）+ inium（化学元素后缀）→铝
词源解释：alum←拉丁语alumen（矾）
背景知识：19世纪，英国化学家戴维（Humphry Davy）从矾土（alumina）中提炼出高纯度铝，因此将其命名为alumium，后来修改为aluminum，最后由被英国编辑修改为aluminium，以符合化学元素的命名习惯。矾土（alumina）是一种氧化铝矿石，是炼铝的主要原料，因为外形类似矾（alum）而被称为alumina。
同源词：alum（矾、明矾），alumina（矾土、氧化铝）
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