Chemical element of metals. Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum. The symbols were not followed by a period (full stop) as with abbreviations. Later chemical elements were also assigned unique chemical symbols, based on the name of the element, but not necessarily in English. For example, sodium has the chemical symbol 'Na' after the Latin "natrium". The same applies to "W" (wolfram) for tungsten, "Fe" (ferrum) for iron, "Hg" (hydrargyrum) for mercury, "Sn" (stannum) for tin, "K" (kalium) for potassium, "Au" (aurum) for gold, "Ag" (argentum) for silver, "Pb" (plumbum) for lead, "Cu" (cuprum) for copper, and
Systematic element name for 4). There are two elision rules designed to prevent odd-looking names. The suffix "-ium" overrides traditional chemical suffix rules; thus elements 117 and 118 were "ununseptium" and "ununoctium", not "ununseptine" and "ununocton". This does not apply to the final trivial names these elements receive once confirmed; thus element 117 and 118 are now "tennessine" and "oganesson". For these trivial names, all elements receive the suffix "-ium", except those in group 17 which receive "-ine" (like the halogens) and those in group 18 which receive "-on" (like the noble gases). The systematic symbol is formed by taking the first letter