mercurius

See also: Mercurius

Latin

Alternative forms

• ☿ (alchemy)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /merˈku.ri.us/, [mɛrˈkʊriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /merˈku.ri.us/, [merˈkuːrius]

Noun

mercurius m (genitive mercuriī or mercurī); second declension

1. mercury (element)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mercurius	mercuriī
Genitive	mercuriī mercurī1	mercuriōrum
Dative	mercuriō	mercuriīs
Accusative	mercurium	mercuriōs
Ablative	mercuriō	mercuriīs
Vocative	mercurie	mercuriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• hydrargyrum

Derived terms

• mercurius corrosivus
• mercurius dulcis

References

• mercurius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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