ONLINE
ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
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selenium
(n.)
- element name, Modern Latin, from
Gk. selene "moon" (see Selene).
Named by Berzelius (1818), on analogy of tellurium,
with which it had been at first confused, and which was named for
the earth. Despite the -ium ending it is not a metal and a more
appropriate name selenion has been proposed.
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Selene
- moon goddess, from Greek selene
"moon," related to selas "light, brightness, flame,"
from PIE root *swel- "to burn" (cf. Sanskrit svargah
"heaven," Lithuanian svilti "to singe," Old
English swelan "to be burnt up," Middle Low German swelan
"to smolder"); related to swelter,
sultry.
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