Jupiter

From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.

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Mercury · Venus · Earth · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptune [edit]


red

head

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

redder (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
redde (alternative)
reed (alternative)
read (alternative)
ræd (alternative)

English: red

Scots: rede, reid

Yola: reed

From Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.

(alchemy) causing transmutation into gold


sol

la-noun

sōl m (genitive sōlis); third declension

sōl (canonical masculine)
sōlis (genitive)
sōl (nominative singular)
sōlēs (nominative plural)
sōlis (genitive singular)
sōlum (genitive plural)
sōlī (dative singular)
sōlibus (dative plural)
sōlem (accusative singular)
sōlēs (accusative plural)
sōle (ablative singular)
sōlibus (ablative plural)
sōl (singular vocative)
sōlēs (plural vocative)
Sōl (alternative)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: sole, sobi, soi, soli

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: soari

Istro-Romanian: sore

Megleno-Romanian: soari

Romanian: soare

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: soli

Gallurese: soli

Sassarese: sori

Dalmatian: saul

Istriot: sul

Italian: sole

Judeo-Italian: סוּלוֹ (sulo)

Neapolitan: sole

Tarantino: sole

Sicilian: suli

Venetan: sołe

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: sôl, soul, saul

Ligurian: sô

Lombard: sol, so

Piedmontese: sol, so

Romagnol: sól

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: sol

Franco-Provençal: sol

Old Gascon: só

Old Occitan: sol

Occitan: sol (Florac, Lastic, Creuse)

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: sol

Mozarabic: שול (šwl)

Old Leonese: [Term?]

Asturian: sol

Extremaduran: sol

Leonese: sol

Mirandese: sol

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: sol
Fala: sol
Galician: sol
Portuguese: sol (see there for further descendants)

Spanish: sol

Vulgar Latin: *sōliculum (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

Proto-Brythonic: [Term?]

Cornish: Sul

Breton: Sul

Welsh: Sul

⇒ Translingual: Solaster

From Proto-Italic *s(u)wōl, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₂ṓl (*suh₂ól-s) ~ *suh₂l-és m (“the sun”), rebuilt s-stem from *súh₂el ~ *suh₂éns n (whence Sanskrit स्वर् (svar, “the sun”)), leveled from *sóh₂wl̥ ~ *suh₂éns (from *sh₂wéns via laryngeal metathesis). Alternatively from Proto-Italic *saul through an irregular change conditioned by -l, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ul.


VB

(alchemy, archaic) abbreviation for bath of vapors, balneum vaporis


air

en-noun

air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)

airs (plural)
aire (alternative obsolete)
ayre (alternative obsolete)
eyr (alternative obsolete)
ayr (alternative)

→ Jersey Dutch: êr

From Middle English aire, from Old French air, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr). Displaced native Old English lyft. More at lift, loft.

err (one US pronunciation or with fair–fur merger)

хӏауа

mixture of gases making up the atmosphere of the Earth

(uncountable) The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere: a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.

(historical, philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.


earth

earth (countable and uncountable, plural earths)

earths (plural)
airth (alternative Scotland)
erd (alternative dialectal rare)
yearth (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, German Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, but of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably unrelated.

inh

earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust

(alchemy, philosophy and Taoism) The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.


brother

enm-noun

brother (plural brether or brethren or brotheren or (rare) brothers, genitive brother or brothers)

brether (plural)
brethren (plural)
brotheren (plural)
brothers (plural rare)
brother (genitive)
brothers (genitive)
broþer (alternative)
broþir (alternative)
broþur (alternative)
broder (alternative)
broðer (alternative)
brothir (alternative)
brothur (alternative)
broiþer (alternative)
bruther (alternative)
brodir (alternative)
broder (alternative)
brothre (alternative)
broþre (alternative)
brodyr (alternative)
broþerr (alternative)

English: brother (see there for further descendants)

Scots: brither, bruther, broder, bruder

Yola: brover, brower

From Old English brōþor, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþer, from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr. Doublet of frere.

(rare, alchemy) Something similar to something else.


cold

head

cold (plural and weak singular colde, comparative colder, superlative *coldest)

colde (plural)
colde (singular weak)
colder (comparative)
*coldest (superlative)
cald (alternative)
chald (alternative)
cheald (alternative)
cheld (alternative)
coold (alternative)

English: cold

Geordie English: cawd, cauld

Scots: cald, cauld

Yola: coale, khoal, cole

from the form stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn

Inherited from Anglian Old English cald; variants with ch- are from West Saxon ċeald.

(alchemy, medicine) Considered to be alchemically cold


cold

English: cold

Scots: cald, cauld

cald (alternative)
chald (alternative)
cheald (alternative)
cheld (alternative)
coold (alternative)


MB

(alchemy, archaic) abbreviation for bath of Mary, balneum mariae


QE

(alchemy, archaic) abbreviation for quintessence, quinta essentia


AR

(alchemy, archaic) Abbreviation of aqua regia.

(alchemy, archaic) Abbreviation of balneum arenae (“sand bath”).

(alchemy, archaic) Abbreviation of lapis armenus (“Armenian stone”).


fire

en-noun

fire (countable and uncountable, plural fires)

fires (plural)
fier (alternative archaic)

→ Japanese: ファイヤー (faiyā)

Sranan Tongo: faya

From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from *fuïr, a regularised form of Proto-Germanic *fōr (“fire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.
See also Saterland Frisian Fjuur, West Frisian fjoer, Dutch vuur, Low German Füer, German Feuer, Danish fyr. Also, compare Hittite 𒉺𒄴𒄯 (paḫḫur), Umbrian pir, Tocharian A/B por/puwar, Czech pýř (“hot ashes”), Russian пуры́нь (purýnʹ), Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”), and Armenian հուր (hur, “fire”). This was an inanimate noun whose animate counterpart was Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis (see ignite). Cognate to pyre.

I wouldn't piss on someone if they were on fire

pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire

there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley

there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire

you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire

(uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.


wet

English: wet (see there for further descendants)

Scots: wat

Yola: weate

From Old English wǣt, wāt, and weten (“to wet”).

wett (alternative)
wette (alternative)
wete (alternative)
weet (alternative)
weete (alternative)

(alchemy, medicine) Something that is considered alchemically wet


wet

wetes (plural)
weten (plural)
wett (alternative)
wette (alternative)
wete (alternative)
weet (alternative)
weete (alternative)

English: wet

Scots: wat


wind

wind (countable and uncountable, plural winds)

winds (plural)
winde (alternative obsolete)

Tok Pisin: win

Torres Strait Creole: win

From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch wind, German Wind, West Frisian wyn, Norwegian and Swedish vind, Icelandic vindur, Latin ventus, Welsh gwynt, Sanskrit वात (vā́ta), Russian ве́тер (véter), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

(philosophy, alchemy) One of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans; air.


base

bases (plural)
bace (alternative)
bas (alternative)
baas (alternative)
basse (alternative)

English: base

Scots: base

Borrowed from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis.

(rare, alchemy) The mix of metals used as a base for alchemical operations.


vessel

vessels (plural)
vessel (plural)
vescel (alternative)
vessell (alternative)
fessell (alternative)
vessall (alternative)
vesel (alternative)
vessayle (alternative)
fessel (alternative)
wessell (alternative)
ffessell (alternative)

English: vessel

Scots: veshel

Yola: veseal

Borrowed from Old French vaissel, vessel, from Late Latin vāscellum.

A container or vessel; a box for storage:

(alchemy) Alchemical equipment, ware, or tools.


bath

bathes (plural)
baðen (plural)
baathe (alternative)
bathth (alternative)
batth (alternative)
baþ (alternative)
baþþ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
bæð (alternative Early-Middle-English)
beað (alternative Early-Middle-English)
beð (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: bath

Scots: bath

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
Inherited from Old English bæþ, from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą.

etymon

(alchemy, rare) A bath for distilling water.

A bath (body of liquid for bathing):
A bath for distilling water.


lunar

From Middle English lunar (“shaped like the crescent moon”), from Latin lūnāris (“of or pertaining to the moon, lunar”) (possibly through Middle French lunaire (modern French lunaire (“lunar”)), from lūna (“the Moon; crescent shape”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright; to shine”)) + -is (suffix forming adjectives).

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On the Poison of Serpents. By W. Boag, Esq. [...] Supposing the fatal effect [of a snakebite] to be produced by the sudden subtraction of oxygen from the blood, this gentleman recommends, by way of antidote, the employment of those substances which contain oxygen in its greatest abundance, and part with it with the greatest facility; and, as lunar caustic [silver nitrate] possesses these properties in a singular degree, he concludes that no medicine is better calculated to resist the effects of the poison of serpents.

1805 April, “Art. V. Asiatic Researches, Vols. VI. and VII. …”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume XLVI, London: Printed by Strahan and Preston, […]; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], published 1794, →OCLC, page 379:

(alchemy, chemistry, historical) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).


sole

it-noun

sole m (plural soli, diminutive (colloquial) solicèllo or (uncommon) solicìno)

soli (plural)
solicèllo (colloquial diminutive)
solicìno (diminutive uncommon)

From Sole, from Latin sōlem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥. Cognates include Greek ήλιος (ílios), Icelandic sól, Hindi सूर्य (sūrya), and Russian со́лнце (sólnce).


nix

la-noun

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

nivis (genitive)
nix (nominative singular)
nivēs (nominative plural)
nivis (genitive singular)
nivium (genitive plural)
nivī (dative singular)
nivibus (dative plural)
nivem (accusative singular)
nivēs (accusative plural)
nivīs (accusative plural)
nive (ablative singular)
nivibus (ablative plural)
nix (singular vocative)
nivēs (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Aromanian: neauã, aneauã, neao, niau

Istro-Romanian: ne

Megleno-Romanian: neauă

Romanian: neauă, nea

Dalmatian:

nai

Insular Romance:

desc

Sardinian: nibe, nive (Nuorese), nie (Logudorese), ni, nii, nia (Campidanese)

Ibero-Romance:

Galician: neve

Portuguese: neve

Spanish: nieve, ñeve

Italo-Romance:

Italian: neve

Neapolitan: neve, neva

Sicilian: nivi

North Italian:

Gallo-Italic:

Emilian: neiv, neva, neiva, nev

Lombard: nef, nif, nöu, neif, nev

Old Ligurian: neive

Ligurian: neie

Piedmontese: neu, nef

Romagnol: neiva, nev

Friulian: nêf, nêv, gnu (Dignano)

Istriot: nìo

Ladin: nëif, nei (Belluno)

Romansch: naiv, nev, neif

Venetan: neve

Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: nê, neu, nei, neif (Valdôtain)

Old French: neif, noif, noi

Norman: nê, noif

Occitano-Romance:

Catalan: neu

Occitan: nèu, neu

Gascon: nheu

Aragonese: nieu, nyeu, neu

Vulgar Latin:

*nĕvem

*nivāre, *nevāre, *nivicāre

From Proto-Italic *sniks (with oblique stem *sniɣʷ- > niv-), from Proto-Indo-European *snéygʷʰs (“snow”), root noun derived from *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”) (whence also Latin nivit, ningit, ninguit). Direct cognates include Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha) and Old Irish snechtae and indirectly also Sanskrit स्नेह (sneha), Old Church Slavonic снѣгъ (sněgŭ) and Old English snāw and snīwan (English snow and snew).


homunculus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin homunculus (“little man”). Compare the adapted borrowing omuncolo.

ubor

(alchemy, folklore) homunculus (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)


Venus

en-noun

Venus (countable and uncountable, plural Venuses or Veneres)

From Middle English Venus, from Latin Venus.

CRYSTALS of Venus or of copper, called also vitriol of Venus, is copper reduced into the form of vitriol by spirit of nitre, or by dissolving verdegris in good distilled vinegar, till the acid be saturated; it is very caustic and used to eat off proud flesh. It is also used by painters, and manufacturers, and sold under the name of distilled vinegar. See CHEMISTRY.

1807, A New and Complete Encyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Vol III, page 48:

Another pair of terms which caused some confusion were Spirit of Saturn and Spirit of Venus, names suggesting compounds of lead and copper respectively. Jean Beguin described the preparation from minium and distilled vinegar of a liquid he called burning spirit of Saturn, e cause it was inflammable and he thought it was a compound of lead. Actually the lead takes no part in the reaction and the product of distilling lead acetate is impure acetone. Beguin’s terminology did not go without comment however, for Christopher Glaser later referred to ‘A burning Spirit of Saturn (as it is called) but rather, a Spirit of the Volatile Salt of Vinegar’. Tachenius referred to the product of distillation of copper acetate as ‘pretended spirit of Venus’ because it was really only distilled vinegar - the meaning which Macquer gave to the expression. It is typical of the confusion of terminology in early chemistry that the London Pharmacopoeia of 1721 gave the name Spiritus Veneris to sulphuric acid obtained by the distillation of copper sulphate.

2004, Maurice P. Crosland, Historical Studies in the Language of Chemistry, page 89:

The association of the heavenly bodies with known metals and also with human organs and destinies goes back to ancient Chaldea, the land of astrologers. In Chaucer’s words: ‘The seven bodies eek, lo hear anon. Sol gold is, and Luna silver we declare; Mars yron, Mercurie is quyksilver; Saturnian leed; and Jubitur is tyn, and Venus coper, by my fathers kyn.’ […] Corresponding names were bestowed upon salts of these metals by the alchemists, and some of them have persisted down to the present day. Some examples are lunar caustic (silver nitrate); vitriol of Venus (copper sulphate); sugar of Saturn (lead acetate); and vitriol of Mars, or Martial vitriol (ferrous sulphate).

2013, John Read, From Alchemy to Chemistry:

(obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Copper (a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element).


Venus

la-proper noun

Venus f (genitive Veneris); third declension

Veneris (genitive)
Venus (nominative singular)
Venerēs (nominative plural)
Veneris (genitive singular)
Venerum (genitive plural)
Venerī (dative singular)
Veneribus (dative plural)
Venerem (accusative singular)
Venerēs (accusative plural)
Venere (ablative singular)
Veneribus (ablative plural)
Venus (singular vocative)
Venerēs (plural vocative)

→ French: Vénus

→ Italian: Venere

→ Middle English: Venus
English: Venus

→ Portuguese: Vénus /Vênus

Sicilian: Vènniri

→ Spanish: Venus

From venus (“loveliness”), see there for more.


spirit

en-noun

spirit (countable and uncountable, plural spirits)

spirits (plural)
spir't (alternative Early Modern)

From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“breath; spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, all ultimately from Latin spīrō (“I breathe, blow, respire”). In this sense, displaced native Middle English gast (from Old English gāst), whence modern English ghost. Doublet of spiritus, spirytus, sprite, spright, and esprit.

doublet

the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

(alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).


Saturn

From Old English Sætern, from Latin Sāturnus, probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre), plausibly influenced by Latin satus, past participle of serere (“to sow”).

(obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Lead (the metal).


luna

From Luna, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”). Cognates include Armenian լուսին (lusin), Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Romanian lună, Russian луна́ (luná).


luna

la-noun

lūna f (genitive lūnae); first declension

lūna (canonical feminine)
lūnae (genitive)
lūna (nominative singular)
lūnae (nominative plural)
lūnae (genitive singular)
lūnārum (genitive plural)
lūnae (dative singular)
lūnīs (dative plural)
lūnam (accusative singular)
lūnās (accusative plural)
lūnā (ablative singular)
lūnīs (ablative plural)
lūna (singular vocative)
lūnae (plural vocative)
Lūna (alternative)
losna (alternative)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: luna

Balkan-Romance:

Aromanian: lunã

Istro-Romanian: lurĕ

Megleno-Romanian: lună

Romanian: lună

Italo-Dalmatian:

Corsican: luna

Dalmatian: loina

Italian: luna

Judeo-Italian: לוּנַה (lunah /luna/)

Neapolitan: luna

Sicilian: luna

Tarantino: lune

Venetan: łuna

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: lune

Ladin: löna, lùna

Romansch: glina

Gallo-Italic:

Ligurian: lünn-a

Old Lombard: luna

Lombard: lüna, löna

Piedmontese: lun-a

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: lluna

Franco-Provençal: lena

Occitan: luna

Old French: lune

Middle French: lune

French: lune

Norman: leune

Bourguignon: leugne

Walloon: lune

Ibero-Romance:

Old Navarro-Aragonese:

Aragonese: luna

Old Leonese:

Asturian: lluna

Extremaduran: luna

Leonese: lluna

Mirandese: lhuna

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: lũa
Galician: lúa, Lúa
Portuguese: lua, Lua (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish:

Ladino: luna

Spanish: luna (see there for further descendants)

Borrowings:

→ English: lune, luna

→ Danish: lune

→ German: Laune

From Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. By surface analysis, lūx + -na.
Cognates include Proto-Slavic *luna.


woda

Polish: woda

Silesian: woda

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō
Proto-Slavic *voda
Old Polish woda
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *voda. First attested in the 14th century.

etymon

Prestocz Xpc na (pro ne) chczal gest byl cloueka stvorzycz... s vod[z]y, isbicz on ne bil necisthy

Beginning of the 15th century, Łukasz z Wielkiego Koźmina, Kazania gnieźnieńskie, Krakow, page 174a:

(alchemy, philosophy, attested in Lesser Poland) water (one of the classical four elements)


gnome

From French gnome (“gnome”), from New Latin gnomus, used by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).

He adopts the Rosycrusian fancy of Gnomes, spirits which inhabit the earth, and who by their power form the ores of metals, and all the wonders met with in the inmost recesses of the globe.

1811, The Medical and Physical Journal, volume 25, page 138:

Day belongs to the earthlier deities—the stern, the harsh, and the cold. Gnomes are the spirits of daily hours. Toil, thought, and strife, beset us: we have to work, to quarrel, and to struggle: we have to take our neighbours in; or, at least, to avoid their doing so by us.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74:

Gnomes are perhaps the most useful of the elementals.
A gnome can carry a person with it as it swims through the soil, provided it is strong enough to lift the person. The gnome cannot, however, provide air for that person[…].

2006, Greg Lynch, RuneQuest Monsters, page 52:

Elementals are the consciousness guiding the four classical elements of earth, fire, air, and water. These elementals are depicted as gnomes, salamanders, diminutive faeries known as sylphs, and merfolk, known as undines, respectively.

2007, Christopher Penczak, Ascension Magick: Ritual, Myth and Healing for the New Aeon, page 413:

(magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism) An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.


urinal

From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.

/ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/

A device or fixture used for urination, particularly:

(historical medicine and alchemy) A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.


fix

head

fix m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fixe)

fixe (feminine nominative oblique singular)
fixs (masculine singular subjective)
fixe (feminine singular subjective)
fix (neuter singular subjective)
fix (masculine oblique singular)
fixe (feminine oblique singular)
fix (neuter oblique singular)
fixe (oblique singular)
fix (oblique singular)
fix (masculine plural subjective)
fixes (feminine plural subjective)
fix (neuter plural subjective)
fix (plural subjective)
fixs (masculine oblique plural)
fixes (feminine oblique plural)
fix (neuter oblique plural)
fixes (oblique plural)
fix (oblique plural)

Middle French: fixe
French: fixe

Norman: fixe

desctree

→ Middle High German: fix
Central Franconian:
Hunsrik: fix
German: fix
→ Hungarian: fix
→ Swedish: fix
→ Finnish: fiksu

Learned borrowing from Latin fixus, from fīgō, from fīvō, from Proto-Italic *feigʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-.


philosopher's stone

en-noun

philosopher's stone (plural philosopher's stones)

philosopher's stones (plural)
Philosopher's Stone (alternative)
philosophers' stone (alternative)
philosophers stone (alternative)
stone of the philosophers (alternative)

A misconstruction of philosophers' stone, from Middle English philosophres ston, a calque of Latin lapis philosophōrum.

[…] I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life.

1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 54:

1997, Christopher McIntosh, The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order, Weiser Books, 3rd Revised Edition, 1998, Paperback, page 51,
The Rosicrucianism of the Andreae era was only partly concerned with alchemy, but later revivals of the Rosicrucian idea were to lay great stress on their claims to possess the secrets of transmutation and the knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life.

The Cleopatra of this early alchemical dialogue is not the famous Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC), last queen of the Ptolemy dynasty and lover of Mark Antony. Along with Mary Prophetess and Zosimos's Theosebia, this Cleopatra occupies a high place in alchemical lore as one of very few ancient female adepts who possessed the secret of the philosopher's stone.

2003, Stanton J. Linden, The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton, Cambridge University Press, page 44:

sorcerer's stone

putative substance able to turn base metals into gold

(alchemy) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.


tierra

Inherited from Latin terra, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”).

(alchemy) earth (one of the four or five classical elements)


elixir

From Medieval Latin elixir (“philosopher's stone”), from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr, “philosopher's stone”), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “powder for drying wounds”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).

der

اَلْإِكْسِير

For Chinese alchemists, gold held the key to the Elixir, the Eastern equivalent of the Philosopher's Stone.

2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 59:

(alchemy) A liquid which converts lead to gold.

elikser

alchemy: liquid which was believed to turn non-precious metals to gold

(alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.


elixir

la-noun

elixir n (genitive elixiris); third declension

elixiris (genitive)
elixir (nominative singular)
elixira (nominative plural)
elixiris (genitive singular)
elixirium (genitive plural)
elixirum (genitive plural)
elixirī (dative singular)
elixiribus (dative plural)
elixir (accusative singular)
elixira (accusative plural)
elixire (ablative singular)
elixiribus (ablative plural)
elixir (singular vocative)
elixira (plural vocative)
alixir (alternative Medieval-Latin New-Latin)
elixerium (alternative Medieval-Latin New-Latin)
elixer (alternative Medieval-Latin New-Latin)
elixirium (alternative Medieval-Latin New-Latin)

Old French: elixir

French: élixir

→ Middle English: elixir, elixer

English: elixir

From Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr), from Koine Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “medicinal powder”), ellipsis of ξηρίον φάρμακον (xēríon phármakon, literally “dry powder medicine”) from Ancient Greek ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).

der

اَلْإِكْسِير

ellipsis

ξηρίον φάρμακον


elixir

(alchemy) elixir (liquid which was believed to turn non-precious metals to gold)


elixir of life

(alchemy) A substance which when drunk brings immortality: eternal life, eternal youth.


phlegm

en-noun

phlegm (usually uncountable, plural phlegms)

From Middle English flewme, fleume, fleme, from Old French fleume, Middle French flemme (French flegme), and their source, Latin phlegma, from Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma, “flame; inflammation; clammy humor in the body”), from φλέγειν (phlégein, “to burn”). Compare phlox, flagrant, flame, bleak (adjective), fulminate. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots.
The regularly developed form /fliːm/ has been displaced by a pronunciation /flɛm/ of uncertain provenance. It may be inherited, though some kind of learned or spelling pronunciation or influence from phlegmatic is also conceivable.

der

The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days, namely, salts, Earths, phlegm, and sulphur.

1812, Humphry Davy, The Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Introduction, Part I. Vol. I, pp. 50-51:

(historical, chemistry, alchemy) A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution.


azoth

From Andalusian Arabic الزُّوق (az-zūq), from Arabic الزَّاوُوق (az-zāwūq, “quicksilver”).

(alchemy) The first principle of metals, that is, mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.


Iuppiter

la-proper noun

Iuppiter m (genitive Iovis); third declension

Iovis (genitive)
Iuppiter (nominative singular)
Iovēs (nominative plural)
Iovis (genitive singular)
Iovum (genitive plural)
Iovī (dative singular)
Iovibus (dative plural)
Iovem (accusative singular)
Iovēs (accusative plural)
Iove (ablative singular)
Iovibus (ablative plural)
Iuppiter (singular vocative)
Iovēs (plural vocative)
Iūpiter (alternative)
Jūpiter (alternative)
Juppiter (alternative)
Iovis (alternative)

→ Afrikaans: Jupiter

→ Arabic: جُوبِيتَر (jūbītar)

→ Armenian: Յուպիտեր (Yupiter)

Asturian: Xúpiter

→ Azerbaijani: Yupiter

→ Bashkir: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Basque: Jupiter

→ Bulgarian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

Catalan: Júpiter

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 朱庇特 (Zhūbìtè)

Cantonese: 朱庇特 (zyu1 bei3 dak6)

→ Cornish: Jubyter, Yow

→ Czech: Jupiter

→ Dutch: Jupiter

→ English: Jupiter, Jove

→ Esperanto: Jupitero

→ Estonian: Jupiter

→ Finnish: Juppiter, Jupiter

Franco-Provençal: Jupitèr

French: Jupiter

Galician: Xúpiter

→ German: Jupiter

→ Hungarian: Jupiter

→ Icelandic: Júpíter

→ Indonesian: Yupiter

→ Irish: Iúpatar

Italian: Giove

→ Latvian: Jupiters

→ Lithuanian: Jupiteris

→ Macedonian: Јупитер (Jupiter)

→ Maltese: Ġovè

desctree

→ Old Ruthenian: Юпи́теръ (Jupíter), Упи́теръ (Upíter)
Belarusian: Юпі́тэр (Jupíter)
Carpathian Rusyn: Юпі́тер (Jupíter)
Ukrainian: Юпі́тер (Jupíter); юпі́тер (jupíter)

→ Persian: ژوپیتر (župiter)

→ Polish: Jowisz, Jupiter

Portuguese: Júpiter

→ Romanian: Jupiter

→ Russian: Юпи́тер (Jupíter)

→ Serbo-Croatian: Jùpiter/Ју̀питер

→ Slovak: Jupiter

→ Slovene: Júpiter

Spanish: Júpiter

→ Swedish: Jupiter

→ Tagalog: Hupiter

→ Turkish: Jüpiter

→ Tuvan: Юпитер (Yupiter)

→ Wolof: Yupiter

→ Yoruba: Júpítérì

→ Zulu: uJupitheri

The nominative Iuppiter, for Iūpiter (with shift of the length from vowel to consonant per the "littera" rule), comes from the vocative combined with pater, and essentially meant "father Jove"; from Proto-Italic *djous patēr, from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), root nomen agentis from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Cognate with Umbrian 𐌉𐌖𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌓 (iupater), and in other branches of Indo-European Sanskrit द्यौष्पितृ (dyáuṣ-pitṛ́), Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “o father Zeus”). Equivalent to diēs (cf. Iovis) + pater.
The oblique cases Iov-, Iovis continue the inflection of Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognates are Latin diēs (originating from the accusative case of *djous) and Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).


Mercurius

la-proper noun

Mercurius m sg (genitive Mercuriī or Mercurī); second declension

Mercuriī (genitive)
Mercurī (genitive)
Mercurius (nominative singular)
Mercuriī (genitive singular)
Mercurī (genitive singular)
Mercuriō (dative singular)
Mercurium (accusative singular)
Mercuriō (ablative singular)
Mercurī (singular vocative)

→ Bulgarian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Catalan: Mercuri (learned)

→ Czech: Merkur

→ Danish: Merkur

→ Middle English: Mercurie, mercurie

English: Mercury, mercury

→ Finnish: Merkurius

→ French: Mercure (learned)

→ Galician: Mercurio (learned)

→ German: Merkur

→ Indonesian: Merkurius

→ Italian: Mercurio (learned)

→ Latvian: Merkur

→ Portuguese: Mercúrio (learned)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *Merxür

Breton: Merc'her

Cornish: Merher

Middle Welsh: Merchyr

Welsh: Mercher

→ Russian: Меркурий (Merkurij)

→ Spanish: Mercurio (learned)

→ Swedish: Merkurius

→ Ukrainian: Меркурій (Merkurij)

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *mercuriāgo

Catalan: melcoratge

Possibly from merx (“merchandise”), or perhaps from Etruscan and influenced by merx.

(alchemy, chemistry) quicksilver, mercury


A stylized representation of a scorpion with a stinging tail.


A (copper/bronze) handmirror, symbol of the Greek goddess Aphrodite (and her Roman equivalent Venus). The cross was added in the 16th century to Christianize the symbol of a pagan god.


♀ m sg (genitive ♀ris); third declension

♀ris (genitive)
♀rēs (nominative plural)
♀ris (genitive singular)
♀rum (genitive plural)
♀rī (dative singular)
♀ribus (dative plural)
♀rem (accusative singular)
♀rēs (accusative plural)
♀re (ablative singular)
♀ribus (ablative plural)
♀rēs (plural vocative)
♀ēs (nominative plural)
♀is (genitive singular)
♀um (genitive plural)
♀ī (dative singular)
♀ibus (dative plural)
♀em (accusative singular)
♀ēs (accusative plural)
♀e (ablative singular)
♀ibus (ablative plural)
♀ēs (plural vocative)

Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀ris

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 399:

Those prepared by art or chemically: as vitriol of Jupiter, of the Moon, of Mars, of the Sun, of Venus


whit

head

whit (plural and weak singular white, comparative whitter, superlative whittest)

white (plural)
white (singular weak)
whitter (comparative)
whittest (superlative)
hwit (alternative)
white (alternative)
whyte (alternative)
whitt (alternative)
whytt (alternative)
whyt (alternative)
whiȝt (alternative)
qwyght (alternative)
ȝwijt (alternative)
wyghte (alternative)
whiyt (alternative)
whijt (alternative)

English: white (see there for further descendants)

Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white

Yola: whit

Inherited from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz.

(alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver


Jove

From Middle English Joves, from Latin Iuppiter, Iovis, from Proto-Italic *djowe-, ablative case of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Doublet of Dyeus and Zeus.


The circle and arrow represent the shield and spear, respectively, of the Ancient Greek god of war Ares (and his Ancient Roman equivalent Mars). In the Medieval era the spear had crossed in front of the shield, and the ancient form lacked the shield altogether.


♂tis (genitive)
♂tēs (nominative plural)
♂tis (genitive singular)
♂tum (genitive plural)
♂tī (dative singular)
♂tibus (dative plural)
♂tem (accusative singular)
♂tēs (accusative plural)
♂te (ablative singular)
♂tibus (ablative plural)
♂tēs (plural vocative)

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 399:


The lunar crescent is an ancient symbol for the moon.
Its orientation varies between increscent and decrescent.


Firſt of all bring Copper with ☿ ſublimate, and fixt Arſenick to bee white, yea as white as ☾, then beat it ſmall.

1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 74:


☾a (canonical feminine)
☾ae (genitive)
☾a (nominative singular)
☾ae (nominative plural)
☾ae (genitive singular)
☾ārum (genitive plural)
☾ae (dative singular)
☾īs (dative plural)
☾am (accusative singular)
☾ās (accusative plural)
☾ā (ablative singular)
☾īs (ablative plural)
☾a (singular vocative)
☾ae (plural vocative)


(Christianity, astronomy): A globus cruciger (the globe surmounted by a Christian cross), representing Christ's or the Church's rule over the redeemed world. Alchemical extension to newly-discovered antimony, motivated by an attempt to retain an association between the basic metals and the known planets. Astronomical use is reinforced by the graphic similarity to the symbol ⟨♀⟩ for Venus, which is the planet that is most similar to Earth.

(alchemy) Stibnite (antimony ore, Sb₂S₃).


♁niī (genitive)
♁nium (nominative singular)
♁nia (nominative plural)
♁niī (genitive singular)
♁niōrum (genitive plural)
♁niō (dative singular)
♁niīs (dative plural)
♁nium (accusative singular)
♁nia (accusative plural)
♁niō (ablative singular)
♁niīs (ablative plural)
♁nium (singular vocative)
♁nia (plural vocative)

Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 69:

Philosophers' cinnabar is sublimated from sulfur of antimony mixed with mercury seven times

(alchemy) Abbreviation of antimonium (“antimony”).


A simple caduceus (☤) of the Greek god Hermes (and his Roman equivalent Mercury), as seen with a much longer staff in stylized representations of that god e.g. on pottery. The cross was added in the 16th century to Christianize the symbol of a pagan god.


As a man may return into the womb of his mother, i.e. into the Earth, out of which hee was firſt made a man, and ſhall again bee raiſed at the laſt day: ſo alſo all Metalls may returne into living ☿ againe, and become ☿, and by Fire bee regenerated, and purified, if for the ſpace of forty weeks, they bee kept in a continuall heat, as an infant is in his Mothers wombe.

1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 11:

Edward he sayth that the Philosophers doe write of two 🜍rs & to them two ☿es joyned, & these are Red most pure & white.

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:

Then turned I up the Glaſs, and there appeared a thouſand ſparks, like very crude ☿ bright and ſhining, marvelous to ſight

1683, anonymous author, The Practice of Lights: Or an Excellent and Ancient Treatise of the Philosophers Stone, page 29; reprinted in Collectanea Chymica: A Collection of Ten Several Treatises in Chymistry, 1684:

(alchemy) Abbreviation of quicksilver., mercury


☿riī (genitive)
☿riī (nominative plural)
☿riī (genitive singular)
☿riōrum (genitive plural)
☿riō (dative singular)
☿riīs (dative plural)
☿rium (accusative singular)
☿m (accusative singular)
☿riōs (accusative plural)
☿riō (ablative singular)
☿riīs (ablative plural)
☿rie (singular vocative)
☿riī (plural vocative)
☿us (nominative singular)
☿ī (nominative plural)
☿ī (genitive singular)
☿ōrum (genitive plural)
☿ō (dative singular)
☿īs (dative plural)
☿um (accusative singular)
☿ōs (accusative plural)
☿ō (ablative singular)
☿īs (ablative plural)
☿e (singular vocative)
☿ī (plural vocative)

Hinc digerendo calcem illam in ☿m conuertit

1656, Johann Schröder, Pharmacopeia medico-chymica [Medico-Chemical Pharamcopoeia], page 319:

Hence by dissolving the lime he turns it into mercury

(alchemy) Abbreviation of mercurius (“mercury”).


helm

From Middle English helm (“helmet; crown of thorns of Jesus; warrior; inn or shop sign”) [and other forms], from Old English helm (“helmet”), from Proto-West Germanic *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz (“protective covering”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelmos, from the root *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of heaume and related to helmet.
Cognates
* Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌻𐌼𐍃 (hilms)
* Old Frisian helm (West Frisian helm)
* Old High German helm (Middle High German helm, modern German Helm; Italian elmo; Old French helme, modern French heaume; Spanish yelmo)
* Old Norse hjalmr (Danish hjelm, Norwegian hjelm, Swedish hjälm)
* Old Saxon helm (Low German Helm, Middle Dutch helm, modern Dutch helm)

inh

The Dragons teeth, Mercurie ſublimate, / That keepes the vvhiteneſſe, hardneſſe and the biting; / And they are gather’d, into Iaſon’s helme, / (Th’Alembeke) and then ſovv’d in Mars his field, / And, thence, ſublim’d ſo often, till they are fix’d.

1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act II, scene i:

(alchemy, chemistry) The upper part or cap of an alembic or retort.


albedo

en-noun

albedo (countable and uncountable, plural albedos or albedoes)

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Borrowed from Latin albēdō (“whiteness”).

bor+

(alchemy) One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.


Saturnus

la-proper noun

Sāturnus m (genitive Sāturnī); second declension

Sāturnus (canonical masculine)
Sāturnī (genitive)
Sāturnus (nominative singular)
Sāturnī (nominative plural)
Sāturnī (genitive singular)
Sāturnōrum (genitive plural)
Sāturnō (dative singular)
Sāturnīs (dative plural)
Sāturnum (accusative singular)
Sāturnōs (accusative plural)
Sāturnō (ablative singular)
Sāturnīs (ablative plural)
Sāturne (singular vocative)
Sāturnī (plural vocative)

→ Albanian: Shtunë

→ English: Saturn

→ German: Saturn

desctree

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Saturno
Galician: Saturno
Portuguese: Saturno

→ Proto-Brythonic: *Sadurn (from Vulgar Latin Săturnus)

Breton: Sadorn

Cornish: Sadorn

Middle Welsh: Sadwrn

Welsh: Sadwrn

→ Proto-West Germanic: *Sāturnas dag (see there for further descendants)

Probably from Etruscan 𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌄 (satre); alternative derivation from Latin satus, the past participle of serō (“to sow”), is then mere folk-etymology.


quintessence

en-noun

quintessence (countable and uncountable, plural quintessences)

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PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French, from Medieval Latin quinta essentia (“fifth essence, aether”). "Essence" in this context is a synonym for "element". In pre-atomic/Aristotelian theory, there are four known elements or essences — Earth, Air, Fire and Water — and a putative fifth element (aether), which is considered to be of exceptional superior quality to the other four basic elements.

der

(alchemy) The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.


projection

en-noun

projection (countable and uncountable, plural projections)

/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/

From either the Middle French projection or its etymon, the Classical Latin prōiectiō (stem: prōiectiōn-), from prōiciō, equivalent to project + -ion. Compare the Modern French projection, the German Projektion, and the Italian proiezione.

I speak not here of Projection, whereby one part of an Aurifick Powder is said to turn I know not how many 100 or 1000 parts of an ignobler metal into silver or gold […]

1666, Robert Boyle, The Origine of Formes and Qualities […], page 365:

But yet I would that every one should understand me aright, and not count me so simple, as if I did liken or compare my Aurum Potabile with that great Stone of the Philosophers, which transmutes vast quantities of imperfect metals into most pure Gold by projection […]

1689, Johann Rudolf Glauber, translated by Christopher Packe, The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber […], page 216:

[Helmont] says, on another occasion, that an adept, after a few days of acquaintance, presented him with half a grain of the powder of projection, with which he transmuted nine ounces of quicksilver into pure gold.

1888, Arthur Edward Waite, Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers […], page 167:

(alchemy, obsolete) A supposed mechanism for the transmutation of large quantities of base metals.


tuli

tuli (nominative singular)
tulet (nominative plural)
tuli (accusative nominative singular)
tulet (accusative nominative plural)
tulen (accusative genitive singular)
tulet (accusative genitive plural)
tulen (genitive singular)
tulien (genitive plural)
tulten (genitive plural)
tulta (partitive singular)
tulia (partitive plural)
tulessa (inessive singular)
tulissa (inessive plural)
tulesta (elative singular)
tulista (elative plural)
tuleen (illative singular)
tuliin (illative plural)
tulella (adessive singular)
tulilla (adessive plural)
tulelta (ablative singular)
tulilta (ablative plural)
tulelle (allative singular)
tulille (allative plural)
tulena (essive singular)
tulina (essive plural)
tuleksi (singular translative)
tuliksi (plural translative)
tuletta (abessive singular)
tulitta (abessive plural)
tulin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
tuleni (nominative singular)
tuleni (nominative plural)
tuleni (accusative nominative singular)
tuleni (accusative nominative plural)
tuleni (accusative genitive singular)
tuleni (accusative genitive plural)
tuleni (genitive singular)
tulieni (genitive plural)
tulteni (genitive plural)
tultani (partitive singular)
tuliani (partitive plural)
tulessani (inessive singular)
tulissani (inessive plural)
tulestani (elative singular)
tulistani (elative plural)
tuleeni (illative singular)
tuliini (illative plural)
tulellani (adessive singular)
tulillani (adessive plural)
tuleltani (ablative singular)
tuliltani (ablative plural)
tulelleni (allative singular)
tulilleni (allative plural)
tulenani (essive singular)
tulinani (essive plural)
tulekseni (singular translative)
tulikseni (plural translative)
tulettani (abessive singular)
tulittani (abessive plural)
tulineni (comitative plural)
tulesi (nominative singular)
tulesi (nominative plural)
tulesi (accusative nominative singular)
tulesi (accusative nominative plural)
tulesi (accusative genitive singular)
tulesi (accusative genitive plural)
tulesi (genitive singular)
tuliesi (genitive plural)
tultesi (genitive plural)
tultasi (partitive singular)
tuliasi (partitive plural)
tulessasi (inessive singular)
tulissasi (inessive plural)
tulestasi (elative singular)
tulistasi (elative plural)
tuleesi (illative singular)
tuliisi (illative plural)
tulellasi (adessive singular)
tulillasi (adessive plural)
tuleltasi (ablative singular)
tuliltasi (ablative plural)
tulellesi (allative singular)
tulillesi (allative plural)
tulenasi (essive singular)
tulinasi (essive plural)
tuleksesi (singular translative)
tuliksesi (plural translative)
tulettasi (abessive singular)
tulittasi (abessive plural)
tulinesi (comitative plural)
tulemme (nominative singular)
tulemme (nominative plural)
tulemme (accusative nominative singular)
tulemme (accusative nominative plural)
tulemme (accusative genitive singular)
tulemme (accusative genitive plural)
tulemme (genitive singular)
tuliemme (genitive plural)
tultemme (genitive plural)
tultamme (partitive singular)
tuliamme (partitive plural)
tulessamme (inessive singular)
tulissamme (inessive plural)
tulestamme (elative singular)
tulistamme (elative plural)
tuleemme (illative singular)
tuliimme (illative plural)
tulellamme (adessive singular)
tulillamme (adessive plural)
tuleltamme (ablative singular)
tuliltamme (ablative plural)
tulellemme (allative singular)
tulillemme (allative plural)
tulenamme (essive singular)
tulinamme (essive plural)
tuleksemme (singular translative)
tuliksemme (plural translative)
tulettamme (abessive singular)
tulittamme (abessive plural)
tulinemme (comitative plural)
tulenne (nominative singular)
tulenne (nominative plural)
tulenne (accusative nominative singular)
tulenne (accusative nominative plural)
tulenne (accusative genitive singular)
tulenne (accusative genitive plural)
tulenne (genitive singular)
tulienne (genitive plural)
tultenne (genitive plural)
tultanne (partitive singular)
tulianne (partitive plural)
tulessanne (inessive singular)
tulissanne (inessive plural)
tulestanne (elative singular)
tulistanne (elative plural)
tuleenne (illative singular)
tuliinne (illative plural)
tulellanne (adessive singular)
tulillanne (adessive plural)
tuleltanne (ablative singular)
tuliltanne (ablative plural)
tulellenne (allative singular)
tulillenne (allative plural)
tulenanne (essive singular)
tulinanne (essive plural)
tuleksenne (singular translative)
tuliksenne (plural translative)
tulettanne (abessive singular)
tulittanne (abessive plural)
tulinenne (comitative plural)
tulensa (nominative singular)
tulensa (nominative plural)
tulensa (accusative nominative singular)
tulensa (accusative nominative plural)
tulensa (accusative genitive singular)
tulensa (accusative genitive plural)
tulensa (genitive singular)
tuliensa (genitive plural)
tultensa (genitive plural)
tultaan (partitive singular)
tultansa (partitive singular)
tuliaan (partitive plural)
tuliansa (partitive plural)
tulessaan (inessive singular)
tulessansa (inessive singular)
tulissaan (inessive plural)
tulissansa (inessive plural)
tulestaan (elative singular)
tulestansa (elative singular)
tulistaan (elative plural)
tulistansa (elative plural)
tuleensa (illative singular)
tuliinsa (illative plural)
tulellaan (adessive singular)
tulellansa (adessive singular)
tulillaan (adessive plural)
tulillansa (adessive plural)
tuleltaan (ablative singular)
tuleltansa (ablative singular)
tuliltaan (ablative plural)
tuliltansa (ablative plural)
tulelleen (allative singular)
tulellensa (allative singular)
tulilleen (allative plural)
tulillensa (allative plural)
tulenaan (essive singular)
tulenansa (essive singular)
tulinaan (essive plural)
tulinansa (essive plural)
tulekseen (singular translative)
tuleksensa (singular translative)
tulikseen (plural translative)
tuliksensa (plural translative)
tulettaan (abessive singular)
tulettansa (abessive singular)
tulittaan (abessive plural)
tulittansa (abessive plural)
tulineen (comitative plural)
tulinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *tuli, from Proto-Uralic *tule. Related to Estonian tuli, Karelian tuli, Livonian tu'l´, Veps tuli, Votic tuli, Northern Sami dolla, Skolt Sami toll, Moksha тол (tol) and Tundra Nenets ту (tu). tuli has previously been typical of Eastern dialects, whereas western dialects used valkea.

(alchemy) fire (one of the basic elements)


aqua fortis

Learned borrowing from Latin aqua fortis (literally “strong water”).

lbor

aquafortis (alternative)
A.F. (alternative)

(alchemy) A corrosive liquor made of saltpeter, serving as a solvent for dissolving silver and all other metals except gold.

aqua fortis

a corrosive liquor made of saltpeter, serving as a solvent for dissolving silver and all other metals except gold


aqua fortis

la-noun

aqua fortis f (genitive aquae fortis); first declension

aquae fortis (genitive)
aqua fortis (nominative singular)
aquae fortēs (nominative plural)
aquae fortis (genitive singular)
aquārum fortium (genitive plural)
aquae fortī (dative singular)
aquīs fortibus (dative plural)
aquam fortem (accusative singular)
aquās fortēs (accusative plural)
aquās fortīs (accusative plural)
aquā fortī (ablative singular)
aquīs fortibus (ablative plural)
aqua fortis (singular vocative)
aquae fortēs (plural vocative)

→ English: aqua fortis (learned)

From aqua (“water”) + fortis (“strong”), for being a liquid capable of dissolving metals.

aqua fortis
(alchemy) a saltpeter-water solution


transmutation

en-noun

transmutation (countable and uncountable, plural transmutations)

Late 14th century, from Old French transmutacion (“transformation, metamorphosis”), from Late Latin transmutationem, from Latin transmutare (“to change”).

გარდაქმნა

the transformation of one element into another

The transmutation of metals was secondary to the main aim, which was the spiritual transformation of the adept.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 261:

(alchemy) Specifically, the supposed transformation of one element into another, especially of a base metal into gold.


xanthosis

en-noun

xanthosis (countable and uncountable, plural xanthoses)


Júpiter

→ Bikol Central: Hupiter

→ Tagalog: Hupiter

planets of the Solar System: planeta del sistema solar: Mercurio · Venus · Tierra · Marte · Júpiter · Saturno · Urano · Neptuno [edit]


tincture

The noun is derived from Late Middle English tincture (“a dye, pigment; a colour, hue, tint; process of colouring or dyeing; medicinal ointment or salve (perhaps one discolouring the skin); use of a medicinal tincture; (alchemy) transmutation of base metals into gold; ability to cause such transmutation; substance supposed to cause such transmutation”) [and other forms], borrowed from Latin tīnctūra (“act of dyeing”) + Middle English -ure (suffix indicating an action or a process and the means or result of that action or process). Tīnctūra is derived from tīnctus (“coloured, tinged; dipped in; impregnated with; treated”) + -tūra (suffix forming action nouns expressing activities or results); while tīnctus is the perfect passive participle of tingō (“to colour, dye, tinge; to dip (in), immerse; to impregnate (with); to moisten, wet; to smear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to dip; to soak”). Doublet of tainture, teinture, and tinctura.
The verb is derived from the noun.

doublet

For vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A deathleſſe tincture, ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, […]

1599, T[homas] M[offett], The Silkewormes, and Their Flies: […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Nicholas Ling, […], →OCLC, pages 67–68:

An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.

[T]he pureſt part [of the sap], as moſt apt and ready, recedes, vvith its due Tinctures, from the ſaid Cortical Body, to the Lignous. VVhich Lignous Body likevviſe ſuper-inducing its ovvn proper Tinctures into the ſaid Sap; […]

1671 December 17 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1672), Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Root”, in The Anatomy of Vegetables Begun. […], London: […] Spencer Hickman, printer to the R[oyal] Society, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53:

And I do perſvvade my ſelf, that the common Devv exhaled from ſome ſorts of Herbs or VVeeds, but eſpecially from the common Graſs, carries vvith it the Seminal Tincture of the Herb, vvhich being again deſcended by Devvs or Rain upon the bare and naked Earth, re-produceth the ſame Species: […]

a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Concerning Vegetables, and Especially Insecta Animalia, whether Any of Them are Sponte Orta, or Arise Not rather Ex Præexistente Semine”, in The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC, section III, page 267:

A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.


Luna

From Middle English lune, luna (“the moon”), from Latin lūna/Lūna, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂. Doublet of Roxane.


Mars

From Middle English Mars, from Latin Mārs (“god of war”), from older Latin (older than 75 BCE) Māvors.


Mars

la-proper noun

Mārs m sg (genitive Mārtis); third declension

Mārs (canonical masculine singular)
Mārtis (genitive)
Mārs (nominative singular)
Mārtis (genitive singular)
Mārtī (dative singular)
Mārtem (accusative singular)
Mārte (ablative singular)
Mārs (singular vocative)

From Old Latin Māvors, from Proto-Italic *Māwortis, or from Proto-Italic *Māmart-. If Māvors indeed comes from *Māmart-, the apparent change */-m-/ to */-w-/ is a unique and isolated change. Mamers was his Oscan name. He was also known as Marmor, Marmar and Maris, the latter from the Etruscan deity Maris. See also the Lapis Satricanus, where 𐌌𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌓𐌕𐌄𐌆 (Mamartei) is attested. Possibly also related to Sanskrit मरुत् (marut, “Maruts, violent storm-gods”).


Mercury

Inherited from Middle English Mercurie, from Latin Mercurius.

(obsolete, alchemy, chemistry) Quicksilver, mercury. (No longer capitalized, as the name of the metal is no longer recognized as that of the planet.)


Sol

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T

From the Etruscan letter 𐌕 (t, “te”), from the Ancient Greek letter Τ (T, “tau”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤕 (t, “taw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏴.

(archaic, alchemy) a crucible [abbreviation of tigillum; see 🝨.]


magnum opus

en-noun

magnum opus (plural magna opera or magnum opuses or (nonstandard) magnum opi)

magna opera (plural)
magnum opuses (plural)
magnum opi (nonstandard plural)

Don Quixote
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
Miguel de Cervantes

/ˌmæɡnəm ˈəʊpəs/

(alchemy) The process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone.


magnum opus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin magnum opus.

ubor

(alchemy) magnum opus (process of working with the prima materia to create the philosopher's stone)


Merkur

de-noun

Merkur n or m (strong, genitive Merkurs, no plural)

Merkurs (genitive)
Merkur (definite nominative singular)
Merkurs (genitive singular)
Merkur (dative singular)
Merkur (accusative definite singular)

planets of the Solar System: Planet des Sonnensystem: Merkur · Venus · Erde · Mars · Jupiter · Saturn · Uranus · Neptun [edit]


alchemical

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.

2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

(alchemy) Of or pertaining to the medieval chemical science and philosophy of alchemy.


aqua regia

la-noun

aqua rēgia f (genitive aquae rēgiae); first declension

aqua rēgia (canonical feminine)
aquae rēgiae (genitive)
aqua rēgia (nominative singular)
aquae rēgiae (nominative plural)
aquae rēgiae (genitive singular)
aquārum rēgiārum (genitive plural)
aquae rēgiae (dative singular)
aquīs rēgiīs (dative plural)
aquam rēgiam (accusative singular)
aquās rēgiās (accusative plural)
aquā rēgiā (ablative singular)
aquīs rēgiīs (ablative plural)
aqua rēgia (singular vocative)
aquae rēgiae (plural vocative)
aqua rēgis (alternative)

→ English: aqua regia (learned)

From aqua (“water”) + rēgia (“royal”), for being a liquid capable of dissolving the most incorruptible of metals, gold.

Coordinate term: aqua fortis


elemental

(alchemy, folklore, mythology) elemental


archeus

From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “original, ancient”).

uder

[…] it must be the Modus of some other Substance latitant in the fluid Matter, and really distinguishable from it; which is either the Soul, or some seminal Form or Archeus, as the Chymist calls it […]

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 68

Willis rejected not just scholasticism's ‘substantial forms’ but Paracelsus's ‘archeus’ doctrine as well.

2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 56:

But Paracelsus' theory of the archeus and the alchemy of life inevitably led him into deeper waters.

2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 250:

(alchemy) The vital principle or force believed by the Paracelsians to be responsible for alchemical reactions within living bodies, and hence for the growth and continuation of life.

arqueu

the vital principle or force responsible for life


magistery

en-noun

magistery (countable and uncountable, plural magisteries)

/ˈmæd͡ʒɪstəɹi/

/ˈmæd͡ʒəˌstəɹi/

PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From Middle English magisteri, magistery (“academic degree of Master”), from Latin magisterium (“office of a chief, director, president, or superintendent; teaching office or authority of the Roman Catholic Church; authoritative statement”) (compare Late Latin magisterium (“philosopher’s stone”)), from magister (“master (title for a person in authority or one having a licence from a university to teach liberal arts and philosophy); teacher”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional suffix forming adjectives)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns, sometimes denoting groups and offices). Doublet of magisterium. Cognate with French magistère, Old French magisteire.

der

[T]hey made proofe of the ſaid flowers dried, and this high magiſterie they found, That being beaten to pouder, they cured thoſe of the bloudie flix,^([sic – meaning flux]) vvho lay at the very point of death upon that diſeaſe; […]

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXXIII.] The Medicinable Vertues Considered in the Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, Boughs, Branches, Barke, Wood, Juice, Root, and Ashes of Many Trees of Severall Kinds.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 165:

[…] I have been here long enough, if I were matter capable thereof, to be made the Philoſophers Stone, to be converted from VVater to Povvder, vvhich is the vvhole Magiſtery: I have been beſides, ſo long upon the Anvil, that methinks I am grovvn malleable, and hammer-proof: I am ſo habituated to hardſhip.

1645 March 5 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XLIII. To Sir Levvis Dives, in the Tovver.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume II, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section VI, page 334:

This wanton Information being over, Daphnis, who had ſtill a Childish Pastorall mind, would presently be gone, and run up to Chloe, to have an experiment with her, how much he had profited by that magistery, as if indeed he had bin afraid lest staying but a little longer, he could forget to do his trick.

1657, Longus, “The Third Book”, in George Thornley, transl., Daphnis & Chloe […] (Abbey Classics; no. 13), London: Simpkin, Marshall, published 1924?, →OCLC, page 124:

But yet farther, Gain aſſurance of thy Peace with God in Chriſt, and conſequently of thy future Happineſs; and be frequent in the Contemplation and Improvement of it. This is the great Engine of a Chriſtian, a Magiſtery that was never attained by the moſt exquiſite Philoſopher, nor is attainable but in and by the knowledge of Chriſt, who brought Life and Immortality to light: […]

1676, Matthew Hale, “Of the Moderation of the Affections. [A Preparative against Afflictions; with Directions for Our Deportment under Them, and upon Our Delivery out of Them.]”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. The Second Part, London: […] William Shrewsbury […], and Tho[mas] Leigh and D[aniel] Midwinter, […], published 1699, →OCLC, page 393:

Some elements were conquerors, some conquered; there existed preparations which possessed the power of changing the whole of a body of a substance of another kind: these were called magisteries.

[1837, William Whewell, “On the Mysticism of the Middle Ages”, in History of the Inductive Sciences, from the Earliest to the Present Times. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, book IV (History of the Physical Sciences in the Middle Ages), pages 304–305:

A pure quality with the power to cure or to turn one substance into another; also, a substance such as a philosopher's stone able to turn one substance into another.

(obsolete) The product of such a transformation.


aludel

(alchemy) aludel (pear-shaped pot with an opening at each end)


ē

(alchemy, archaic) abbreviation for quintessence, quinta essentia


ens

From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.

Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]

2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 245:

(chemistry, alchemy, now historical) Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.


leprous

en-adj

leprous (comparative more leprous, superlative most leprous)

more leprous (comparative)
most leprous (superlative)

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From Middle English leprous (“having leprosy or a skin disease with symptoms like leprosy; (alchemy) of metals or minerals: impure; a leper”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman leprous, lepros [and other forms], Middle French lepros, lepreux, and Old French leprous, lepros (“having leprosy; a leper”) (modern French lépreux), and from their etymon Late Latin leprosus (“having leprosy; (alchemy) of metals: impure; a leper”), from Latin lepra (“leprosy”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; overly; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns). Lepra is derived from Ancient Greek λέπρᾱ (léprā, “leprosy”), from λεπῐ́ς (lepĭ́s, “flake, scale; epithelial debris”) (perhaps from λέπω (lépō, “to peel, strip off a husk or rind”) + -ῐς (-ĭs, suffix forming feminine nouns)) + -ᾱ (-ā, suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

nb...

leperous, leperus, lepourous, lepres, lepris, lepros, leprose, leprouse, leprows, leprus, lepruse, leprys

leperous, leperus, leprus, lepuros, lieprous, lieprus

lepric

particularly with regard to the disease itself

(alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.


(alchemy, obsolete) The symbol for bismuth in Torbern Bergman's work (1775).


A stylized representation of a lion's head and tail.


Unknown, but it has been suggested that the symbol derives from a letter M for (the Virgin) Mary in the Middle Ages, though the sign had earlier been identified with the goddess Ceres/Demeter. It has also been suggested to be a ligature of Greek παρ (par), for Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden”).


(alchemy, archaic) Symbol for sublimation


Cinnabaris Philoſophorum, 🝞atur ex 🜍re ♁nii cum ☿rio mixto ſepties

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 69:

(alchemy) Abbreviation of sublīmō (“sublimate”).


A stylized representation of the chimeric capricorn (head and forelegs of a goat, curling tail of a fish).

(alchemy, archaic) fermentation, putrefaction


A stylized representation of (ripples of) water.


A pair of fish; the stroke joining them is relatively recent.


The Greek letter Zeta with an abbreviation stroke, for Ζεύς (Zeús), the Greek equivalent to the Roman god Jupiter. The form changed from Classical and early Medieval ⟨Ƶ⟩ to one with a more salient cross, ⟨♃⟩, in the 15th–16th century, at about the time that Christian crosses were added to ⟨☿⟩, ⟨♀⟩ and ⟨♄⟩, and so may have had a similar motivation.


If thou wilt turne ♄ into ♃ make plates of ♄, ſtrow them with Salt Armoniack, cement, and melt them, as aboveſaid, ſo will all the blackneſſe, and darkneſſe bee taken away from the Lead, and it will be in whiteneſſe like fair Engliſh Tin.

1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 74:


la-proper noun

♃ m sg (genitive ♃vis); third declension

♃vis (genitive)
♃vis (genitive singular)
♃vī (dative singular)
♃vem (accusative singular)
♃ve (ablative singular)
♃is (genitive singular)
♃ī (dative singular)
♃em (accusative singular)
♃e (ablative singular)

Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀ris

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin–German and German–Latin], page 399:

May 18 Ideam solutionis perfeci Nempe æqualia duo salia elevant ♄ Dein hic elevat lapidem, nec non cum Iove malleabili conjunctus fit 🝏 idque in tali proportione ut ♃ sceptrum apprehendat. Tunc aquila ♃em attollet., Isaac Newton, Cambridge, Portsmouth Add. MS. 3975 (alchemical notebook):

May 18 I came up with an idea of the solution, namely, two equal salts elevate Saturn, then this elevates the stone, and also conjoined with malleable Jove it becomes the scepter of Jove and this in such a proportion that Jupiter seizes the scepter. Then the eagle raises up Jupiter.

(alchemy) Abbreviation of Iuppiter (“Jupiter”).


The Greek letters kappa-rho with an abbreviation stroke at bottom, for Κρόνος (Krónos), the Greek equivalent to the Roman god Saturn. The cross at top was added later, to Christianize the symbol of a pagan god.


♄us (canonical masculine)
♄ī (genitive)
♄us (nominative singular)
♄ī (nominative plural)
♄ī (genitive singular)
♄ōrum (genitive plural)
♄ō (dative singular)
♄īs (dative plural)
♄um (accusative singular)
♄ōs (accusative plural)
♄ō (ablative singular)
♄īs (ablative plural)
♄e (singular vocative)
♄ī (plural vocative)

Ideo ☾ perpetuò quasi semine est semper multiplicabilis in veram ☾ quae non perit in ♄i Examine.
In quo ♄o notabile est, 1ᵒ quod durior sit, ac proinde licet malleabile, tamen frangi potest, nec tam bene ac ♄us naturalis malleari possit.

c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, pages 104, 209:

In which Saturn is notable: First, that it is harder, and therefore although it is malleable, yet it can be broken, and cannot be hammered so well as natural Saturn.
Therefore Luna [silver], as though by a perennial seed, is always multiplicable into true Luna that does not perish upon examination with Saturn [lead].


The trident of Neptune, the Ancient Roman god of the sea.

bismuth (alternative)
Ψ (alternative)
psi (alternative)


spagyrist

From modern Latin spagirista, from spagiricus (“alchemy”) (probably invented by Paracelsus).

It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists.

1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502:

The Carmelite enjoyed the general amazement, and he told father and son how the secret of this substance had been revealed to him by an Arab; it was medicine far more powerful than the one Christian spagyrists called unguentum armarium.

1994, Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before, Harcourt Brace, published 1995, page 21:

Back when I was still a junior alchemist, passing through What Cheer, Iowa, met up with this old-school spagyrist name of Doddling, who showed me how to get silver to grow just like a tree.

2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 1060:

(alchemy) An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.


eld

eld (indefinite nominative singular)
elds (genitive indefinite singular)
elden (definite nominative singular)
eldens (definite genitive singular)
eldar (indefinite nominative plural)
eldars (genitive indefinite plural)
eldarna (definite nominative plural)
eldarnas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish elder, from Old Norse eldr, from Proto-Germanic *ailidaz.

(uncountable, alchemy) fire (one of the classical, or basic, elements)


calcine

en-verb

calcine (third-person singular simple present calcines, present participle calcining, simple past and past participle calcined)

calcines (present singular third-person)
calcining (participle present)
calcined (participle past)
calcined (past)
calcine (infinitive)
calcine (first-person present singular)
calcined (first-person past singular)
calcine (present second-person singular)
calcinest (archaic present second-person singular)
calcined (past second-person singular)
calcinedst (archaic past second-person singular)
calcines (present singular third-person)
calcineth (archaic present singular third-person)
calcined (past singular third-person)
calcine (plural present)
calcined (past plural)
calcine (present subjunctive)
calcined (past subjunctive)
calcine (imperative present)
calcining (participle present)
calcined (participle past)

The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (something) until it turns to powder; to change the nature of (something) by heating”) [and other forms], from Old French calciner (modern French calciner (“to calcinate; to calcine”)) and from its etymon Medieval Latin calcināre (“(alchemy) to burn like lime; to reduce to calx”), from Late Latin calcīna (“inorganic material containing calcium, lime”) + -āre (suffix forming present active infinitive forms of verbs). Calcīna is derived from Latin calcis, the genitive singular of calx (“chalk; limestone”), possibly from Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx, “small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble”); further etymology unknown, possibly Pre-Greek.
The noun is derived from the verb.

nb...

calcene, calcenen, calciene, calcyne, calsinen

der

(alchemy, historical) To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.


The shield of the sun god Apollo, with a boss in the center. Medieval replacement of ⟨🜚⟩, the sun with a single ray, which in ancient times had replaced a sun orb surrounded by multiple rays.
Compare the Egyptian hieroglyph ⟨⟩ and the Chinese character ⟨⟩, both of which mean 'sun' and 'day'.


But that the five leſſer, and impurer Metalls, viz. ♀ ♃ ♄ ♂ and ☿ may be tranſmuted into the greater, pureſt, and moſt perfect Metalls, viz. into ☉ and ☾, it cannot be done without the Tincture, or Philoſophers ſtone.

1650, Paracelsus, “Of the Nature of Things”, in John French, transl., A New Light of Alchymie, page 73:


la-noun

☉ m sg (genitive ☉lis); third declension

☉lis (genitive)
☉lis (genitive singular)
☉lī (dative singular)
☉lem (accusative singular)
☉le (ablative singular)
☉is (genitive singular)
☉ī (dative singular)
☉em (accusative singular)
☉e (ablative singular)

Sic ſunt homines, qui ad lumen candelæ non autem ☉lis cœcutiunt, morbus nyctalopia dicitur.

1688, Caspar Cramer, Collegium chymicum, page 6:

Thus there are men who are blind to the light of a candle but not of the sun; the disease is called nyctalopia.


☉rī (genitive)
☉ra (nominative plural)
☉rī (genitive singular)
☉rōrum (genitive plural)
☉rō (dative singular)
☉rīs (dative plural)
☉rum (accusative singular)
☉ra (accusative plural)
☉rō (ablative singular)
☉rīs (ablative plural)
☉rum (singular vocative)
☉ra (plural vocative)

Aurum fulminans fit ex ☉ro in 🜆egis ſoluto

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 34:

Fulminating gold is made from gold dissolved in aqua regia

(alchemy) Abbreviation of aurum (“gold”).


spirit of wine

Inherited from Middle English spirit of wyn, calque of Latin spiritus vini.

inh+

(alchemy) Aqua vitae prepared by distilling wine.


aqua vitae

en-noun

aqua vitae (countable and uncountable, plural aquae vitae)

aquae vitae (plural)
aqua vitæ (alternative)

From Medieval Latin aqua vītae directly and via Middle English aqua vite and French eau-de-vie, from aqua (“water”) and vītae (“of life”). Doublet of aquavit and akvavit. Compare eau de vie, whisky, whiskey, and water of life from the same source.

(alchemy) An aqueous solution of alcohol typically prepared by distilling wine.


ljósvaki

is-noun

ljósvaki m (genitive singular ljósvaka, nominative plural ljósvakar)

ljósvaka (genitive singular)
ljósvakar (nominative plural)
ljósvaki (indefinite nominative singular)
ljósvakinn (definite nominative singular)
ljósvakar (indefinite nominative plural)
ljósvakarnir (definite nominative plural)
ljósvaka (accusative indefinite singular)
ljósvakann (accusative definite singular)
ljósvaka (accusative indefinite plural)
ljósvakana (accusative definite plural)
ljósvaka (dative indefinite singular)
ljósvakanum (dative definite singular)
ljósvökum (dative indefinite plural)
ljósvökunum (dative definite plural)
ljósvaka (genitive indefinite singular)
ljósvakans (definite genitive singular)
ljósvaka (genitive indefinite plural)
ljósvakanna (definite genitive plural)


congelen

congelen (infinitive)
to congelen (infinitive)
congele (infinitive)
congele (first-person present singular)
congeled (first-person past singular)
congelest (present second-person singular)
congeledest (past second-person singular)
congeleth (present singular third-person)
congeled (past singular third-person)
congele (present singular subjunctive)
congeled (past singular subjunctive)
congele (imperative present singular)
congelen (plural present)
congele (plural present)
congeleden (past plural)
congelede (past plural)
congeleth (imperative plural present)
congele (imperative plural present)
congelynge (participle present)
congelende (participle present)
congeled (participle past)
ycongeled (participle past)
congeilen (alternative)
conjealen (alternative)
congilen (alternative)

English: congeal

From Middle French congeler, from Latin congēlō; equivalent to con- + gelen.


νεφέλη

grc-noun

νεφέλη • (nephélē) f (genitive νεφέλης); first declension

nephélē (romanization)
νεφέλης (genitive)
ἡ νεφέλη (nominative singular)
νεφέλᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ νεφέλαι (nominative plural)
τῆς νεφέλης (genitive singular)
νεφέλαιν (dual genitive)
νεφελῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ νεφέλῃ (dative singular)
νεφέλαιν (dative dual)
ταῖς νεφέλαις (dative plural)
τὴν νεφέλην (accusative singular)
νεφέλᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς νεφέλᾱς (accusative plural)
νεφέλη (singular vocative)
νεφέλᾱ (dual vocative)
νεφέλαι (plural vocative)

Greek: νεφέλη (neféli)

From Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ-el-h₂ (“cloud”). Related to νέφος (néphos, “cloud”), Latin nebula (“fog, cloud”).


wiatr

zlw-opl-noun

wiatr m animacy unattested (related adjective wiatrowy or wietrzny)

wiatr m animacy unattested (canonical)
wiatrowy (adjective)
wietrzny (adjective)
wietr (alternative)

Polish: wiatr

desc

Silesian: wiater, wjater (Steuer's Silesian Alphabet), wiatrz

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *větrъ. First attested in the 14th century.

Ten ps[alm] powyada, yze Xpus stworzyl zywyoly, to yest zyemye, wyatr, ogye[ń], wodę

1916 [second half of the 15th century], Stanisław Słoński, editor, Psałterz puławski, Greater Poland, page 73 arg:

(philosophy, alchemy, attested in Greater Poland) wind; air (one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans)


wiatr

pl-noun

wiatr m inan (diminutive wietrzyk or wiaterek, augmentative wietrzysko, related adjective wietrzny)

wietrzyk (diminutive)
wiaterek (diminutive)
wietrzysko (augmentative)
wietrzny (adjective)
wiatr (nominative singular)
wiatry (nominative plural)
wiatru (genitive singular)
wiatrów (genitive plural)
wiatrowi (dative singular)
wiatrom (dative plural)
wiatr (accusative singular)
wiatry (accusative plural)
wiatrem (instrumental singular)
wiatrami (instrumental plural)
wietrze (locative singular)
wiatrach (locative plural)
wietrze (singular vocative)
wiatry (plural vocative)

(philosophy, alchemy) wind; air (one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans)


noble metal

(inorganic chemistry, alchemy) A metal resistant to corrosion, oxidizing and tarnishing, such as gold or platinum.


(alchemy, obsolete) [unidentified iron compound, possibly same meaning as ⚦ and/or ⚨.]


(possibly)

(possibly)

(alchemy, obsolete) crocus of iron, crocus martis (red or yellow calcined powder of iron).


geest

nl-noun

geest m (plural geesten, diminutive geestje n)

geesten (plural)
geestje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: gees

Negerhollands: geest

From Middle Dutch gêest, from Old Dutch gēst, from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeysd-, *ǵʰisd- (“anger, agitation”).
Cognates
Cognate with German Geist, West Frisian geast, English ghost, Swedish gast.

In alchemie wordt de term geest gebruikt om het vluchtige deel van een stof aan te duiden.

In alchemy, the term spirit is used to refer to the volatile part of a substance.

(alchemy) spirit, gas, distillate, essence


base metal

en-noun

base metal (countable and uncountable, plural base metals)

(chiefly alchemy) one that was hoped to be transmuted into a precious metal.


ogień

zlw-opl-noun

ogień m inan (related adjective ogienny or ogniowy)

Polish: ogień

Silesian: ôgyń

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ogňь. First attested in the 14th century.

(philosophy, alchemy, attested in Greater Poland) fire (one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans)


ogień

pl-noun

ogień m inan (diminutive ogienek or ogieniek, related adjective ogniowy)

ogienek (diminutive)
ogieniek (diminutive)
ogniowy (adjective)
ogień (nominative singular)
ognie (nominative plural)
ognia (genitive singular)
ogni (genitive plural)
ogniów (genitive plural)
ogniowi (dative singular)
ogniom (dative plural)
ogień (accusative singular)
ognie (accusative plural)
ogniem (instrumental singular)
ogniami (instrumental plural)
ogniu (locative singular)
ogniach (locative plural)
ogniu (singular vocative)
ognie (plural vocative)

(philosophy, alchemy) fire (one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans)


پرندہ

ur-noun

پَرِنْدَہ • (parinda) m (Hindi spelling परिंदा)

پَرِنْدَہ (canonical)
parinda (romanization)
परिंदा (Hindi)
پَرِنْدَہ (direct singular)
پَرِنْدے (direct plural)
پَرِنْدے (oblique singular)
پَرِنْدوں (oblique plural)
پَرِنْدے (singular vocative)
پَرِنْدو (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَرَنْدَه (paranda). Equivalent to پَرِنْد (parind) + ـَہ (-a). First attested in c. 1645 as Middle Hindi پرندہ (prndh /paranda/).

ref

“پرندہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.


Καδμεία

grc-proper noun

Κᾰδμείᾱ • (Kădmeíā) f (genitive Κᾰδμείᾱς); first declension

Κᾰδμείᾱ (canonical)
Kădmeíā (romanization)
Κᾰδμείᾱς (genitive)
ἡ Κᾰδμείᾱ (nominative singular)
τῆς Κᾰδμείᾱς (genitive singular)
τῇ Κᾰδμείᾳ (dative singular)
τὴν Κᾰδμείᾱν (accusative singular)
Κᾰδμείᾱ (singular vocative)
κᾰδμείᾱ (alternative)
κᾰδμήᾱ (alternative)
κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (alternative)

Greek: Καδμεία (Kadmeía)

desc

Latin: Cadmēa, cadmea, cadmia, calamina, calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

English: cadmia, calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

French: calamine

English: calamine

From Κᾰ́δμος (Kắdmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”), probably ultimately from Proto-Semitic *q-d-m.

suffix

(alchemy, chemistry) calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during zinc sublimation


gnomo

Borrowed from New Latin gnomus, coined by Paracelsus as a synonym for pygmaeus (“pygmy”).


alchimista

alchimista (nominative singular)
alchimiści (nominative plural)
alchimisty (derogatory nominative plural)
alchimisty (genitive singular)
alchimistów (genitive plural)
alchimiście (dative singular)
alchimistom (dative plural)
alchimistę (accusative singular)
alchimistów (accusative plural)
alchimistą (instrumental singular)
alchimistami (instrumental plural)
alchimiście (locative singular)
alchimistach (locative plural)
alchimisto (singular vocative)
alchimiści (plural vocative)

(alchemy, obsolete) Alternative form of alchemista


calamina

la-noun

calamīna f (genitive calamīnae); first declension

calamīna (canonical feminine)
calamīnae (genitive)
calamīna (nominative singular)
calamīnae (nominative plural)
calamīnae (genitive singular)
calamīnārum (genitive plural)
calamīnae (dative singular)
calamīnīs (dative plural)
calamīnam (accusative singular)
calamīnās (accusative plural)
calamīnā (ablative singular)
calamīnīs (ablative plural)
calamīna (singular vocative)
calamīnae (plural vocative)

English: calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

French: calamine

English: calamine

Italian: calamina

Spanish: calamina

From cadmia under influence from calamus, from Ancient Greek κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kădmĭ́ā), variant of Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kădmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Equivalent to calamus + -īna.

(Medieval Latin, alchemy, chemistry) Synonym of cadmia, calamine


viskusteinn

is-noun

viskusteinn m (genitive singular viskusteins, nominative plural viskusteinar)

viskusteins (genitive singular)
viskusteinar (nominative plural)
viskusteinn (indefinite nominative singular)
viskusteinninn (definite nominative singular)
viskusteinar (indefinite nominative plural)
viskusteinarnir (definite nominative plural)
viskustein (accusative indefinite singular)
viskusteininn (accusative definite singular)
viskusteina (accusative indefinite plural)
viskusteinana (accusative definite plural)
viskusteini (dative indefinite singular)
viskusteininum (dative definite singular)
viskusteinum (dative indefinite plural)
viskusteinunum (dative definite plural)
viskusteins (genitive indefinite singular)
viskusteinsins (definite genitive singular)
viskusteina (genitive indefinite plural)
viskusteinanna (definite genitive plural)


alchimia

alchimia (nominative singular)
alchimii (genitive singular)
alchimii (dative singular)
alchimię (accusative singular)
alchimią (instrumental singular)
alchimii (locative singular)
alchimio (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ).

bor+

اَلْكِيمِيَاء

(alchemy, obsolete) Alternative form of alchemia


pacient

pacientes (plural)
paciente (alternative)
pacyent (alternative)
patient (alternative)

English: pacient

Borrowed from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).

der

(alchemy, rare) That which is subjected to action.


kamen mudraca

sh-noun

kamen mudraca m (Cyrillic spelling камен мудраца)

камен мудраца (Cyrillic)


potable gold

From potable + gold. From being something drinkable that is like gold.
* (alchemy): from being an elixir that confers the untarnishability and eternity of gold to a person

This tradition found its way to the West in the notion of ‘potable gold’ (aurum potabile), a medicine that, if drunk, would cure all manner of ills.

2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 60:

(alchemy) A theoretical substance which would confer eternal life on the drinker.


алхимик

bg-noun

алхими́к • (alhimík) m (feminine алхими́чка)

алхими́к (canonical)
alhimík (romanization)
алхими́чка (feminine)
алхими́к (indefinite singular)
алхими́ци (indefinite plural)
алхими́кът (definite singular subjective)
алхими́ците (definite plural subjective)
алхими́ка (definite objective singular)
алхими́ците (definite objective plural)
алхими́ко (singular vocative)
алхими́ци (plural vocative)

bg-ndecl

алхими́к<(h)>


soule

enm-noun

soule (plural soules or soulen or (early) soule)

soules (plural)
soulen (plural)
soule (plural)
saul (alternative)
saule (alternative)
souel (alternative)
soul (alternative)
soull (alternative)
soulle (alternative)
sowel (alternative)
sowele (alternative)
sowle (alternative)
sowll (alternative)
sowyl (alternative)
sauele (alternative Early-Middle-English)
sawlæ (alternative Early-Middle-English)
sawle (alternative Early-Middle-English)
sæule (alternative Early-Middle-English)
sauel (alternative Northern)
saull (alternative Northern)
saulle (alternative Northern)
sawel (alternative Northern)
sawele (alternative Northern)
sawell (alternative Northern)
sawil (alternative Northern)
sawle (alternative Northern)
zaule (alternative Kent)

English: soul (see there for further descendants)

Scots: saul

Inherited from Old English sāwol, sāwel, from Proto-West Germanic *saiwalu, from Proto-Germanic *saiwalō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English oblique forms.

(alchemy) A refined animating substance akin to the soul.


bazilišek

bazilišek (nominative singular)
bazilišky (dual nominative)
bazilišci (nominative plural)
baziliškové (nominative plural)
baziliška (genitive singular)
bazilišku (genitive singular)
baziliškú (dual genitive)
baziliškóv (genitive plural)
bazilišku (dative singular)
baziliškovi (dative singular)
baziliškoma (dative dual)
baziliškóm (dative plural)
bazilišek (accusative singular)
baziliška (accusative singular)
bazilišky (accusative dual)
bazilišky (accusative plural)
bazilišče (singular vocative)
bazilišky (dual vocative)
bazilišci (plural vocative)
baziliškové (plural vocative)
bazilišcě (locative singular)
bazilišku (locative singular)
baziliškovi (locative singular)
baziliškú (dual locative)
bazilišciech (locative plural)
baziliškem (instrumental singular)
baziliškoma (dual instrumental)
bazilišky (instrumental plural)
basilišek (alternative)
baziliskus (alternative)
baziliškus (alternative)

Czech: bazilišek

desctree

→ Old Polish: bazyliszek, bażyliszek
Polish: bazyliszek
→ Kashubian: bazyliszk

Etymology tree
Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus
Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλεύς (băsĭleús)
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos)
Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos)bor.
Latin basiliscuslbor.
Old Czech bazilišek
Learned borrowing from Latin basiliscus.

etymon

(alchemy) philosopher's stone (powder with a sweet and poisonous smell, turning liquid mercury into solid gold)


dragoun

dragouns (plural)
dragon (alternative)
dragoune (alternative)
dragun (alternative)

English: dragon (see there for further descendants)

Scots: draigon

Borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drake (“dragon”).


éter

pt-noun

éter m (countable and uncountable, plural (obsolete) éters)

éters (obsolete plural)
ether (alternative)
éther (alternative)

Learned borrowing from Latin aethēr (“the upper pure, bright air”), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “upper air”), from αἴθω (aíthō, “to burn, shine”).

der

(uncountable, alchemy) aether (classical physical element)


ziemia

Polish: ziemia

Silesian: ziymia

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľa. First attested in the 14th century.

Ten ps[alm] powyada, yze Xpus stworzyl zywyoly, to yest *zyemye, wyatr, ogye[ń], wodę

(alchemy, philosophy, attested in Greater Poland) earth (one of the four classical elements)


magisterium

en-noun

magisterium (plural magisteriums or magisteria)

magisteriums (plural)
magisteria (plural)

From Latin magisterium (“office of a president, chief; magisterium”), from magister (“master”). Equivalent to magister + -ium. Doublet of magistery.

uder

This is the day I am to perfect for him / The magisterium, our great work, the stone.

1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


panter

panteres (plural)
panteren (plural)
pantere (alternative)
panther (alternative)

English: panther

From Old French pantere, from Latin panthera, from Ancient Greek πάνθηρ (pánthēr).


Elixier

de-noun

Elixier n (strong, genitive Elixiers, plural Elixiere)

Elixiers (genitive)
Elixiere (plural)
Elixier (nominative singular)
Elixiere (definite nominative plural)
Elixiers (genitive singular)
Elixiere (definite genitive plural)
Elixier (dative singular)
Elixieren (dative definite plural)
Elixier (accusative singular)
Elixiere (accusative definite plural)
Elixir (alternative)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic اَلْإِكْسِير (al-ʔiksīr), from Ancient Greek ξηρίον (xēríon, “medicinal powder”), from ξηρός (xērós, “dry”).

der

اَلْإِكْسِير

(alchemy) elixir (liquid which was believed to turn non-precious metals to gold; liquid which was believed to cure all ills)


elixír života

elixír života (nominative singular)
elixíry života (nominative plural)
elixíru života (genitive singular)
elixírů života (genitive plural)
elixíru života (dative singular)
elixírům života (dative plural)
elixír života (accusative singular)
elixíry života (accusative plural)
elixíre života (singular vocative)
elixíry života (plural vocative)
elixíru života (locative singular)
elixírech života (locative plural)
elixírem života (instrumental singular)
elixíry života (instrumental plural)


omuncolo

Borrowed from Latin homunculus. By surface analysis, om- (“man”) + -uncolo. Compare unadapted borrowing homunculus.

surf

(alchemy, biology, neurophysiology) Alternative form of homunculus


bölcsek köve

[ˈbølt͡ʃɛkːøvɛ]

From bölcsek (“sages, wise people”) + köve (“his/her/their stone”), from bölcs (“sage”) + -ek (plural suffix) and the köv- stem of kő (“stone”) + -e (possessive suffix).


salamandra

From Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra).


אבן החכמים

he-noun

אֶבֶן הַחֲכָמִים

אֶבֶן הַחֲכָמִים • (éven ha-khakhamím) m (no construct forms)

אֶבֶן הַחֲכָמִים (canonical)
éven ha-khakhamím (romanization)

philosopher's stone
philosopher's stone#English:_Q182053

he:אבן החכמים


eter

pl-noun

eter m inan (related adjective eterowy or eteryczny or eterny)

eterowy (adjective)
eteryczny (adjective)
eterny (adjective)
eter (nominative singular)
eteru (genitive singular)
eterowi (dative singular)
eter (accusative singular)
eterem (instrumental singular)
eterze (locative singular)
eterze (singular vocative)

Internationalism; compare English ether, French éther, German Äther, ultimately from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

(alchemy) quintessence, aether (fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water, that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere)


(alchemy, archaic) an hour. Dedicated Unicode character ⟨🝮⟩. May occur with or without a cross-bar at the waist. Lobes may be triangular or cordiform, or the design may be a more elaborate pictogram.


spirite

the foure spirites and the bodyes seven

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:


магистерия

ru-noun+

магисте́рия • (magistérija) f inan (genitive магисте́рии, nominative plural магисте́рии, genitive plural магисте́рий)

магисте́рия (canonical)
magistérija (romanization)
магисте́рии (genitive)
магисте́рии (nominative plural)
магисте́рий (genitive plural)
магисте́рия (nominative singular)
магисте́рии (nominative plural)
магисте́рии (genitive singular)
магисте́рий (genitive plural)
магисте́рии (dative singular)
магисте́риям (dative plural)
магисте́рию (accusative singular)
магисте́рии (accusative plural)
магисте́рией (instrumental singular)
магисте́риею (instrumental singular)
магисте́риями (instrumental plural)
магисте́рии (prepositional singular)
магисте́риях (plural prepositional)

[məɡʲɪˈsʲtʲerʲɪjə]


cadmia

la-noun

cadmī̆a f (genitive cadmī̆ae); first declension

cadmī̆a (canonical feminine)
cadmī̆ae (genitive)
cadmī̆a (nominative singular)
cadmī̆ae (nominative plural)
cadmī̆ae (genitive singular)
cadmī̆ārum (genitive plural)
cadmī̆ae (dative singular)
cadmī̆īs (dative plural)
cadmī̆am (accusative singular)
cadmī̆ās (accusative plural)
cadmī̆ā (ablative singular)
cadmī̆īs (ablative plural)
cadmī̆a (singular vocative)
cadmī̆ae (plural vocative)
cadmēa (alternative)

English: cadmia

desc

Medieval Latin: calamina, calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

English: calaminaris, lapis calaminaris

French: calamine

English: calamine

From Ancient Greek κᾰδμῐ́ᾱ (kădmĭ́ā), variant of Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kădmeíā), from Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”) + -εια (-eia, “-ia: forming related substances”). Equivalent to Cadmus + -ia.

(alchemy, chemistry) calamine, a pink form of zinc oxide formed as a byproduct during sublimation.


eliksir

eliksirek (diminutive)
eliksir (nominative singular)
eliksiry (nominative plural)
eliksiru (genitive singular)
eliksirów (genitive plural)
eliksirowi (dative singular)
eliksirom (dative plural)
eliksir (accusative singular)
eliksiry (accusative plural)
eliksirem (instrumental singular)
eliksirami (instrumental plural)
eliksirze (locative singular)
eliksirach (locative plural)
eliksirze (singular vocative)
eliksiry (plural vocative)
eliksyr (alternative obsolete)
elixir (alternative)

Borrowed from French élixir. First attested in 1578.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “eliksyr”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

(alchemy) elixir (substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life)


nobla metalo

eo-head

nobla metalo (accusative singular noblan metalon, plural noblaj metaloj, accusative plural noblajn metalojn)

noblan metalon (accusative singular)
noblaj metaloj (plural)
noblajn metalojn (accusative plural)

(inorganic chemistry, alchemy) noble metal


cohobate

en-verb

cohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)

cohobates (present singular third-person)
cohobating (participle present)
cohobated (participle past)
cohobated (past)

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

(physical chemistry, alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

предестилирам

to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate


эфир

ru-noun+

эфи́р • (efír) m inan (genitive эфи́ра, nominative plural эфи́ры, genitive plural эфи́ров, relational adjective эфи́рный)

эфи́р (canonical)
efír (romanization)
эфи́ра (genitive)
эфи́ры (nominative plural)
эфи́ров (genitive plural)
эфи́рный (adjective relational)
эфи́р (nominative singular)
эфи́ры (nominative plural)
эфи́ра (genitive singular)
эфи́ров (genitive plural)
эфи́ру (dative singular)
эфи́рам (dative plural)
эфи́р (accusative singular)
эфи́ры (accusative plural)
эфи́ром (instrumental singular)
эфи́рами (instrumental plural)
эфи́ре (prepositional singular)
эфи́рах (plural prepositional)
эѳи́ръ (alternative)

→ Azerbaijani: efir

→ Kazakh: эфир (éfir)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, “upper air”).


ss

(pharmacy, alchemy) Apothecary symbol for half.


The lunar crescent is an ancient symbol for the moon.
Its orientation varies between increscent and decrescent.

(alchemy, rare) quicksilver, contrasting with ☾ for silver.


☽nae (genitive)
☽nae (nominative plural)
☽nae (genitive singular)
☽nārum (genitive plural)
☽nae (dative singular)
☽nīs (dative plural)
☽nam (accusative singular)
☽nās (accusative plural)
☽nā (ablative singular)
☽nīs (ablative plural)
☽na (singular vocative)
☽nae (plural vocative)

Eſt quaſi medium inter ☉ & ☽tum, inter ☉lem & ☽nam

1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 5:

It is like the middle between gold and silver, between the sun and the moon

Arte ſivè Chymice parata: ut Vitriolum ♃vis, ☽næ, ♂tis, ☉lis, ♀ris

(alchemy) Abbreviation of luna (“moon”).


drye

head

drye (plural and weak singular drye, comparative *dryer, superlative *dryest)

drye (plural)
drye (singular weak)
*dryer (comparative)
*dryest (superlative)
drie (alternative)
dry (alternative)
dryge (alternative)
druȝe (alternative)
dryȝe (alternative)
dri (alternative)
drige (alternative)
driȝe (alternative)
driȝȝe (alternative)
dru (alternative)
drue (alternative)
druiȝe (alternative)
druie (alternative)
drei (alternative)
dreie (alternative)
draie (alternative)

English: dry

Scots: dry, drey

From Old English drȳġe, from Proto-West Germanic *drūgi, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz.