hydrargyrum

• (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)

From New Latin hydrargyrum (“mercury”), via French hydrargyre.

• IPA^(key): /haɪˈdɹɑːd͡ʒɪɹəm/

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.

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

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hyˈdrar.ɡy.rum/, [hʏˈdrar.ɡʏ.rʊ̃]

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)

• hydrargyrum on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la