lunificatio

Latin

Etymology

From lūna (“moon, Moon; silver”) +‎ -ficō (“-ify”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”). Compare sōlificātiō.

Noun

lūnificātiō f (genitive lūnificātiōnis); third declension

1. (alchemy) the making of silver
   • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:

     Nota quoque, quod ☿ ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.

     Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lūnificātiō	lūnificātiōnēs
Genitive	lūnificātiōnis	lūnificātiōnum
Dative	lūnificātiōnī	lūnificātiōnibus
Accusative	lūnificātiōnem	lūnificātiōnēs
Ablative	lūnificātiōne	lūnificātiōnibus
Vocative	lūnificātiō	lūnificātiōnēs