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palladium¹

  • /pəˈleɪdi.əm/ US, UK
  • /pəˈlɛjdɪjəm/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /pəˈlæɪdi.əm/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /pəˈlede.əm/ Scotland
  • /-dɪ-/ Scotland
  • /-di-/ Scotland
  • /pəˈleːdi.əm/ Wales

Where it comes from

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.

noun palladia

  1. A safeguard. The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

palladium²

  • /pəˈleɪdi.əm/ US, UK
  • /pəˈlɛjdɪjəm/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /pəˈlæɪdi.əm/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /pəˈlede.əm/ Scotland
  • /-dɪ-/ Scotland
  • /-di-/ Scotland
  • /pəˈleːdi.əm/ Wales

Where it comes from

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

noun palladiums

  1. countable, uncountable A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
  2. countable A single atom of this element.

Palladium³

proper noun Palladion

  1. A wooden statue of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: pd, gold, catalyzed, palladium black, radiopalladium, palladseite, eka-platinum, palladoarsenide, palladodymite, palladobismutharsenide, allopalladium, platina, plate, palarstanide, platinoid, ekaplatinum

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noun a safeguard

Españolpaladión
DeutschSchutz
Русскийпалла́диум palládium

noun chemical element

Españolpaladio
한국어팔라듐 palladyum
日本語パラジウム parajiumu
中文鈀 /钯 bǎ
हिन्दीनिचूषातु nicūṣātu
Portuguêspaládio
Françaispalladium
DeutschPalladium
Italianopalladio
Ελληνικάπαλλάδιο palládio
Românăpaladiu
Русскийпалла́дий palládij
Tiếng Việtpalađi
العربيةبَلَادِيُوم balādiyūm, بَالَادِيُوم bālādiyūm
עבריתפָּלַדְיוּם paládyum

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"palladium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/palladium. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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palladium. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/palladium

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"palladium." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/palladium.

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@misc{palladium_2026,
  title = {palladium},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/palladium},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}