Mercurialis

 

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Euphorbiaceae – mercuries, principally of southern Europe.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids, COM clade – clades; Malpighiales – order; Euphorbiaceae – family; Acalyphoideae - subfamily; Acalypheae - tribe; Mercurialinae - subtribe

• (genus): Mercurialis perennis (dog's mercury) - type species; Mercurialis annua (annual mercury), Mercurialis leiocarpa, Mercurialis tomentosa - selected other species

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• mercuriālis

From Mercurius (“Mercury”) +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mer.ku.riˈaː.lis/, [mɛrkʊriˈäːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mer.ku.riˈa.lis/, [merkuriˈäːlis]

Mercuriālis (neuter Mercuriāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to Mercury; mercurial.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• Mercurialis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Mercurialis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press