aluminum English · revision 13410

− It was coined in 1812 by its discoverer, the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) as an alteration of his earlier New Latin alumium (1808),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[alumina]], aluminium oxide, a name given by French chemists in the late 18th century,^(Etymonline) and -ium, a suffix for metals.^(Barnhart 1988) Alumina is from [[m|la|alūmen|t=alum]] (see [[alum]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)