seleen

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Chemical element
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Etymology

From Dutch seleen.

Noun

seleen (uncountable)

  1. selenium
    Synonym: selenium

Hypernyms

Dutch
Chemical element
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Etymology

A borrowing from German Selen or Swedish selen, or a shortening of selenium, as seleen is attested considerably later than selenium.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /səˈleːn/, /seːˈleːn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: se‧leen
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Noun

seleen n (uncountable)

  1. selenium (chemical element) [from late 19th c.]

Synonyms

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

seleen (genitive seleeni, partitive seleeni)

  1. selenium

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading
  • “seleen”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Limburgish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [zɛ˧ˈleː˦n]

Noun

seleen n (inflected like appelsien)

  1. (uncountable) selenium
  2. A part of selenium
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