Meanings
plural aluminiums · alternative Canada Philippines US aluminum · alternative § Usage notes
- countableuncountablechemistryA light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.
There are plenty of reasons, Australians may reason, why our nation might be exempted from the threatened next round of Trumpian tariffs, on stuff like aluminium and pharmaceuticals.
2025 February 5, Annabel Crabb, “Donald Trump didn't invent brawling about tariffs. Australia gave it a red hot go”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2025- countablechemistryAn atom of this element.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂elut-
- Latinalūmen
- Englishaluminium
First used in 1812 as an alternative form of aluminum which was coined in the same year. From Latin alūmen + -ium. * For information on the origins of the two spellings, see the Wikipedia article.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Arabic أَلُومِنْيُوم
- أَلُومِنْيُوم (ʔalūminyūm)silvery metal
Basque aluminioa
- aluminioasilvery metal
Bengali অ্যালুমিনিয়াম
- অ্যালুমিনিয়াম (êluminiẏam)silvery metal
Bulgarian алуми́ний
- алуми́ний (alumínij)silvery metal
Catalan alumini
- aluminisilvery metal
Chinese Cantonese 鋁 /铝
- 鋁 /铝 (leoi⁵)silvery metal
Chinese Mandarin 鋁 /铝, 鋼種 /钢种
- 鋁 /铝 (lǚ)silvery metal
- 鋼種 /钢种 (gāngzhǒng)silvery metal
- 鋼精 /钢精 (gāngjīng)silvery metal
Czech hliník
- hliníksilvery metal
Danish aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Dutch aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Esperanto aluminio
- aluminiosilvery metal
Estonian alumiinium
- alumiiniumsilvery metal
Finnish alumiini
- alumiinisilvery metal
French aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
German Aluminium
- Aluminiumsilvery metal
Greek αλουμίνιο
- αλουμίνιο (aloumínio)silvery metal
Hawaiian ʻAluminuma
- ʻAluminumasilvery metal
Hebrew אלומיניום, חמרן
- אלומיניום (alumínyum)silvery metal
- חמרן (ḥamran, ḥomran)silvery metal
Hindi एल्युमिनियम, स्फटयातु
- एल्युमिनियम (elyuminiyam)silvery metal
- स्फटयातु (sphaṭyātu)silvery metal
Hungarian alumínium
- alumíniumsilvery metal
Icelandic ál
- álsilvery metal
Indonesian aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Irish alúmanam
- alúmanamsilvery metal
Italian alluminio
- alluminiosilvery metal
Japanese アルミニウム, 軽銀
- アルミニウム (aruminiumu)silvery metal
- 軽銀 (keigin)silvery metal
- 礬素 (banso)silvery metal
Korean 알루미늄, 경은
- 알루미늄 (alluminyum)silvery metal
- 경은 (gyeong'eun)silvery metal
- 반소 (banso)silvery metal
Latin aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Latvian alumīnijs
- alumīnijssilvery metal
Lithuanian aliuminis
- aliuminissilvery metal
Malay aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Māori konumohe
- konumohesilvery metal
Norwegian Bokmål aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Persian آلومینیم
- آلومینیم (âluminiyom)silvery metal
Polish glin, aluminium
- glinsilvery metal
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Portuguese alumínio
- alumíniosilvery metal
Romanian aluminiu
- aluminiusilvery metal
Russian алюми́ний
- алюми́ний (aljumínij)silvery metal
Scottish Gaelic alùmanam, almain
- alùmanamsilvery metal
- almainsilvery metal
- almansilvery metal
Slovak hliník
- hliníksilvery metal
Spanish aluminio
- aluminiosilvery metal
Swahili alumini, aluminiamu
- aluminisilvery metal
- aluminiamusilvery metal
Swedish aluminium
- aluminiumsilvery metal
Tagalog aluminyo
- aluminyosilvery metal
Tamil அலூமீனியம்
- அலூமீனியம் (alūmīṉiyam)silvery metal
Thai อะลูมิเนียม, อะลูมินัม
- อะลูมิเนียม (à-luu-mí-niiam)silvery metal
- อะลูมินัม (à-luu-mí-nam)silvery metal
Turkish alüminyum
- alüminyumsilvery metal
Ukrainian алюмі́ній
- алюмі́ній (aljumínij)silvery metal
Urdu ایلومینیم
- ایلومینیم (elyuminiyam)silvery metal
Vietnamese nhôm
- nhômsilvery metal
Welsh alwminiwm
- alwminiwmsilvery metal
Yiddish אַלומיניום
- אַלומיניום (aluminyum)silvery metal
Cite this entry
aluminium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aluminium
“aluminium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aluminium. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aluminium,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aluminium.
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