☽tum

Latin

Noun

☽tum n (genitive ☽tī); second declension

  1. (alchemy) abbreviation of argentum (“silver”)
    • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 9:
      Alecharit, alcharit eſt ☽tum vivum.
      Alecharit, alcharit is quicksilver.
    • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 5:
      Eſt quaſi medium inter ☉ & ☽tum, inter ☉lem & ☽nam
      It is like the middle between gold and silver, between the sun and the moon
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