mercurius

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ☿ (alchemy) === Etymology === From Mercurius. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɛrˈkʊ.ri.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [merˈkuː.ri.us] === Noun === mercurius m (genitive mercuriī or mercurī); second declension mercury (element) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== hydrargyrum ==== Derived terms ==== mercurius corrosivus mercurius dulcis === References === "mercurius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “mercurius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “mercurius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray