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)

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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

Translations

References

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical, Classicistic) IPA^(key): /hyˈdrar.ɡy.rum/, [hyˈdrar.ɡy.rũ]

Etymology 1

A regularly inflected form of hydrargyrus.

Noun

hydrargyrum

1. accusative singular of hydrargyrus

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

hydrargyrum n ‎(genitive hydrargyrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) mercury

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

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

External links

• hydrargyrum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la