hydrargyrum
English
Alternative forms
- (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)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”), via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French hydrargyre.
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
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parameter) IPA(key): /haɪˈdɹɑːd͡ʒɪɹəm/
Noun
hydrargyrum (uncountable)
- (chemistry and medicine) mercury (chemical element)
- 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of English Words (sixth edition), “Hydrargyrum”:
- Hydrargyrum, quick-silver.
- 1706, John Kersey (editor), Phillips’s New World of English Words (sixth edition), “Hydrargyrum”:
Synonyms
- (mercury): azoth (alchemy), mercury (standard term), quicksilver (dated or evocative)
Derived terms
- hydrargyral = hydrargyrate = hydrargyric = hydrargyrous
- hydrargyria = hydrargyriasis = hydrargyrism = hydrargyrosis = hydrargysm
Translations
cognate translations of hydrargyrum — otherwise see mercury
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References
- NED V (H–K; 1st ed., 1901), § 1 (H), page 482/3, “‖Hydrargyrum”
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /hyˈdrar.ɡy.rum/, [hʏˈd̪rärɡʏrʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iˈdrar.d͡ʒi.rum/, [iˈd̪rärd͡ʒirum]
Etymology 1
A regularly inflected form of hydrargyrus.
Noun
(deprecated template usage) hydrargyrum
Etymology 2
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”).
Noun
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Inflection
Descendants
- Translingual: Hg
- English: hydrargyrum
- French: hydrargyre
- Russian: гидра́ргирум (gidrárgirum)
Further reading
- hydrargyrum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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