Translingual
Symbol
🜿
- (archaic, alchemy) tartar (impure potassium tartrate, KH(C2H2O3)2)
Synonyms
Latin
Noun
🜿 n (genitive 🜿rī); second declension
- (alchemy) abbreviation of tartarum (“tartar”)
1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 361:Spiritus 🜿ri, eſt ʟiquor iſte, qui ex 🜿ro 🝋ſato per 🝭tam cum 🝆 deſtillatur.- Spirit of tartar is that liquid which is distilled from powdered tartar using a retort with oil.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Second-declension noun (neuter).