lunificatio

Latin

Etymology

From lūna (“moon, Moon; silver”) +‎ -ficō (“-ify”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”). Compare sōlificātiō.

Noun

lūnificātiō f (genitive lūnificātiōnis); third declension

  1. (alchemy) the making of silver
    • c. 1653-1656, George Starkey, translated by William R. Newman, Lawrence M. Principe, Alchemical Laboratory Notebooks and Correspondence, University of Chicago Press, published 2004, page 204:
      Nota quoque, quod ☿ ex 🜵 non fit sine sequestratione 🜍is Combustibilis Copiosi, Ergo & hoc ad Solificationem & Lunificationem sequestrari convenit.
      Note also that mercury is not made from regulus without the separation of copious combustible sulfur; therefore, it is fitting for solifaction and lunifaction for this sulfur to be removed.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lūnificātiō lūnificātiōnēs
genitive lūnificātiōnis lūnificātiōnum
dative lūnificātiōnī lūnificātiōnibus
accusative lūnificātiōnem lūnificātiōnēs
ablative lūnificātiōne lūnificātiōnibus
vocative lūnificātiō lūnificātiōnēs
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