Zinn

Zinn

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from German Zinn.

    Proper noun

    Zinn

    1. A surname from German.
      • 2025 September 10, Paighten Harkins and Sean P. Means, “George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’”, in The Salt Lake Tribune[1]:
        Often, Gill said, Zinn was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. He said Zinn was politically conservative, leaning libertarian, and would “give me a hard time for being a Dem.”

    Derived terms

    German

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtsɪn/
    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
    • Audio (Austria):(file)

    Etymology 1

    Chemical element (edit)
    Sn
    Atomic number 50
    Zinn
    Classification data
    Period 5
    Group 14
    Block p-block
    Class post-transition metal
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      From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin. Cognate with English tin.

      Noun

      Zinn n (strong, genitive Zinnes or Zinns, no plural)

      1. tin
      Declension
      Coordinate terms
      Derived terms

      See also

      Symbol Pt Au Ag Fe Al Sn Cu
      metal Platin Gold Silber Eisen Aluminium Zinn Kupfer

      Etymology 2

      Proper noun

      Zinn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zinns or (with an article) Zinn, feminine genitive Zinn, plural Zinns)

      1. a surname
      Descendants
      • Translingual: Zinnia

      Further reading

      • Zinn”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[2] (in German)
      • Zinn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
      • Zinn” in Duden online
      • Zinn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de

      Hunsrik

      Etymology

      From Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /t͡sin/

      Noun

      Zinn n

      1. tin

      See also

      Symbol Pt Au Ag Fe Al Sn Cu
      metal Platin Gold Silver Eise Aluminium Zinn Kupper

      Further reading

      • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Zinn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch