hydrargyrum

• with an Ancient Greek -on accusative case ending, hydrargyron (obsolete)
• (with a Latin -um accusative case ending) hydrargyrum (current)
• (without a case ending) hydrargire, hydrargirie, hydrargyre (all obsolete)
• (abbreviation) hydrarg. (currency uncertain)

From New Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”). By surface analysis, hydr- +‎ argyr- +‎ -um.

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒɪɹəm/

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hydrargyrum (uncountable)

1. (chemistry, medicine) Mercury (chemical element).

   Synonyms: (alchemy) azoth, (standard term) mercury, (not in technical use) quicksilver

   • 1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Hydrargyrum”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 2:

     Hydrargyrum, Quick-ſilver, a Mineral, of a ſtrange piercing Quality, ſo as to eat thro' Gold, Silver, &c.

   • 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 129:

     ‘There is a channel in the spine of her blade, and in it runs a river of hydrargyrum—a metal heavier than iron, though it flows like water.’

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

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

A regularly inflected form of hydrargyrus.

hydrargyrum

1. 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”).

hydrargyrum n (genitive hydrargyrī); second declension

1. (New Latin) mercury

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

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