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Translingual
Etymology
Possibly ⟨π⟩ fire plus ⟨π⟩ crucible
Symbol
π
- (alchemy, archaic) sulphur/sulfur, brimstone
- (astronomy, obsolete) 19th-century typographic variant of ⟨β΄⟩, the symbol for asteroid (2) Pallas
- (astrology) cardinal zodiacal modality
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Derived terms
English
Noun
π (plural πrs)
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 250:Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two πrs & to them two βΏes joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.
Latin
Noun
π n sg (genitive πis); third declension
- (alchemy) Abbreviation of sulphur.
c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:Nota quoque, quod βΏ ex π΅ non fit sine sequestratione πis Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.- Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 69:Cinnabaris PhiloΕΏophorum, πatur ex πre βnii cum βΏrio mixto ΕΏepties- Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).