♄inus

Latin

Adjective

♄inus (feminine ♄ina, neuter ♄inum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. (alchemy) abbreviation of saturninus (“saturnine”)
    • 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 260:
      Quod ♁ale ♄inum Argentum vivum sit cum ☉e ad hoc Magisterium complendum conjungendum.
      That antimonial saturnine quicksilver is to be joined with Sol for the completion of this magistery.
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