aluminio

/aluˈminjo/ · B2 · noun · m

aluminum

🥫 sounds like a-LOO-minnow: a shiny can made of a lightweight metal

Spanish aluminio comes from Latin alumen, meaning alum, the salt the metal was first extracted from. The ending -io matches English -ium, so aluminio is aluminium, and the stress falls on the -mi- syllable.

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