hydrargyrum: difference between revisions

• (with a pseudo-Greek -on case ending, suggesting a noble gas) hydrargyron (obsolete)
• (with a Latin -um case ending) hydrargyrum (current)
• (without a case ending) hydrargire, hydrargirie, hydrargyre (all obsolete)
• (abbreviation) hydrarg. (currency uncertain)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”), via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French hydrargyre. It comes from hydrargyrum, a Latinized by Dioskorides from the Greek word ὑδράργυρος (hydrargyros),

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑːd͡ʒɪɹəm/

hydrargyrum (uncountable)

1. (chemistry and medicine) mercury (chemical element)
   • 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of English Words (sixth edition), “Hydrargyrum”:

     Hydrargyrum, quick-silver.

• (mercury): azoth (alchemy), mercury (standard term), quicksilver (dated or evocative)

• hydrargyral = hydrargyrate = hydrargyric = hydrargyrous
• hydrargyria = hydrargyriasis = hydrargyrism = hydrargyrosis = hydrargysm

• NED V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 1 (H), page 482/3, “‖Hydrargyrum”

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hyˈdrar.ɡy.rum/, [hʏˈd̪rärɡʏrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈdrar.d͡ʒi.rum/, [iˈd̪rärd͡ʒirum]

A regularly inflected form of hydrargyrus.

(deprecated template usage) hydrargyrum

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) accusative singular of hydrargyrus

An alteration of the Classical Latin hydrargyrus (“quicksilver (artificially prepared)”), by analogy with the names of other metals, such as aurum (“gold”) and argentum (“silver”).

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1. (New Latin) mercury

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• Translingual: Hg
• English: hydrargyrum
• French: hydrargyre
• Russian: гидра́ргирум (gidrárgirum)

• hydrargyrum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la