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Palladium

//pəˈleɪdiəm// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A wooden statue of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend.

Noun

1
A safeguard.
"The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights."
2
A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal. countable, uncountable
3
a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry wordnet
4
A single atom of this element. countable

Etymology

Etymology 1

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.

Etymology 2

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

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