mercurius

See also: Mercurius

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

mercurius m (genitive mercuriī or mercurī); second declension

  1. mercury (element)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mercurius mercuriī
Genitive mercuriī
mercurī1		 mercuriōrum
Dative mercuriō mercuriīs
Accusative mercurium mercuriōs
Ablative mercuriō mercuriīs
Vocative mercurie mercuriī

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

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • mercurius corrosivus
  • mercurius dulcis

References
  • 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
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