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🜄 U+1F704, 🜄 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR WATER ← 🜃 [U+1F703] Alchemical Symbols 🜅 → [U+1F705]

Translingual

Design

A 'down' triangle, because water sinks (finds its level).

Symbol

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1. (alchemy) water, aqua (one of the Classical elements)

Derived terms

1. 🜃
2. 🜅
3. 🜆
4. 🝢

Latin

Noun

🜄 f (genitive 🜄ae); first declension

1. (alchemy) Alternative spelling of aqua (“water”)
   • 1656, Johann Schröder, Pharmacopeia medico-chymica [Medico-Chemical Pharamcopoeia], page 244:

     Si loco 🜄æ vinum in maceratione adhibueris, ſpiritum itidem nanciſceris

     If you use wine in place of water in soaking, you will likewise obtain a spirit

   • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 4:

     Ados eſt 🜄 in qua ferrum candens extinguitur

     Ados is water in which glowing iron is extinguished

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	🜄	🜄ae
Genitive	🜄ae	🜄ārum
Dative	🜄ae	🜄īs
Accusative	🜄am	🜄ās
Ablative	🜄ā	🜄īs
Vocative	🜄a	🜄ae