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Latin
Noun
☽tum n (genitive ☽tī); second declension
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of argentum (“silver”).
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 9:Alecharit, alcharit eſt ☽tum vivum.- Alecharit, alcharit is quicksilver.
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 5:Eſt quaſi medium inter ☉ & ☽tum, inter ☉lem & ☽nam- It is like the middle between gold and silver, between the sun and the moon
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).