English

Alternative forms

• stibnium
• stibnum

Noun

stibium ‎(uncountable)

1. antimony
2. kohl: stibnite used in ancient Egypt and Rome for eye cosmetics.

Derived terms

Related terms

• stibiate
• stibiated

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sti‧bi‧um

Etymology

From Latin stibium.

Noun

stibium n ‎(uncountable)

1. antimony

Synonyms

• antimoon
• antimonium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στίβι ‎(stíbi).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsti.bi.um/, [ˈstɪ.bi.ũ]

Noun

stibium n ‎(genitive stibiī); second declension

1. antimony
2. kohl, stibnite

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• stibium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “stibium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.