Derivation magnesia + -ium
Noun magnesium (uncountable) A light, flammable, silvery metal, and a chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. See also For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/mg.html (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author, who has spent a tremendous effort to get them encoded in Unicode.) Translations Afrikaans: magnesium Albanian: magnez Armenian: magneziumu Basque: magnesioa Belarussian: магнiй (mahnij) Bosnian: magnezij Breton: magneziom m, magnesiom Bulgarian: магнезий (magnezij) m Chinese: 鎂 (měi) Cornish: magnysyum Croatian: magnezij Czech: hořčík Danish: magnesium Dutch: magnesium n Esperanto: magnezio Estonian: magneesium Faroese: magnesium Finnish: magnesium French: magnésium m Frisian: magnesium Friulian: magnesi Gallegan: magnesi Georgian: მაგნიუმი (magniumi) German: Magnesium n Greek, Modern: Μαγνησιο (magnisio) Hebrew: מגנזיום (magneziom) Hungarian: magnézium Icelandic: magnín Interlingua: magnesium Irish: maignéisiam Italian: magnesio m Japanese: マグネシウム (maguneshiumu) Kashmiri: magnéz Kazakh: магний (magnij) Latin: magnesium Latvian: magnijs Lithuanian: magnis Luxembourgish: magnesium Malay: magnesium Maltese: magniżjum Manx: magnaishum Mongolian: магни (ᠮᠠᠭᠨᠢ, magni) Norwegian: magnesium Polish: magnez m Portuguese: magnésio m Romanian: magneziu n Russian: магний (magnij) Scots Gaelic: maignèisiam Serbian: магнезиум (magnezium) Slovak: horšík Slovenian: magnezij Spanish: magnesio m Swedish: magnesium Tajik: magni' Thai: แมกนีเซียม Turkish: magnezyum Ukrainian: магнiй Uzbek: магний Vietnamese: magiê Welsh: magnesiwm