mercurius

• ☿ (alchemy)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛrˈkʊ.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [merˈkuː.ri.us]

mercurius m (genitive mercuriī or mercurī); second declension

1. mercury (element)

Second-declension noun.

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

• hydrargyrum

• mercurius corrosivus
• mercurius dulcis

• "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