-ium

-ium · suffix¹

1. Latin · learned borrowing from-ium
2. English today-ium

Learned borrowing from Latin -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns and, in New Latin, names of chemical elements), based on Latin terms for metals such as ferrum (“iron”).

-ium · suffix²

Reanalysis from multiple Latin or New Latin compounds suffixed with -ium, whose function, among others, is to derive parasynthetic compounds.

-ium · suffix³

Reanalysis of Latin words suffixed with -tōrium, -ārium and -ium.