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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
mercurius m (genitive mercuriī or mercurī); second declension
- mercury (element)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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