noun · masculinesecond declension
☿
☿ m (genitive ☿riī)
Meaning
- New Latinmasculinescribal abbreviation of mercurius (“mercury”)
Hinc digerendo calcem illam in ☿m conuertit
Hence by dissolving the lime he turns it into mercury1656, Johann Schröder, Pharmacopeia medico-chymica [Medico-Chemical Pharamcopoeia], page 319:Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties
Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 69:
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ☿ ☿us | ☿riī ☿ī |
| genitive | ☿riī ☿ī | ☿riōrum ☿ōrum |
| dative | ☿riō ☿ō | ☿riīs ☿īs |
| accusative | ☿rium ☿m, ☿um | ☿riōs ☿ōs |
| ablative | ☿riō ☿ō | ☿riīs ☿īs |
| vocative | ☿rie ☿e | ☿riī ☿ī |