Contextualizebeta

mercuric

adj

Etymology

From mercury + -ic, partly after French mercurique.

  1. derived from mercuriālis — “a plant, probably annual mercury (Mercurialis annua)”
  2. derived from mercurial
  3. derived from mercurial
  4. inherited from mercurial — “a plant, probably goosefoot (genus Chenopodium); (possibly) dog’s mercury (Mercurialis perennis)”
  5. derived from *merǵ-✻ — “to divide”
  6. derived from Mercurius — “Mercury, the Roman god of commerce, communication, etc.; the planet Mercury; etc.”
  7. derived from mercurius — “metallic chemical element, quicksilver”
  8. derived from mercurie — “metallic chemical element, quicksilver; a plant, probably goosefoot (genus Chenopodium); (possibly) dog’s mercury (Mercurialis perennis); etc.”
  9. suffixed as mercuric — “mercury + ic”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or derived from mercury.

  2. Specifically (of a compound), containing mercury with an oxidation number of 2.

  3. Mercurial (of people).

    • I was the least mercuric, the most sedentary of the three, and my poor eyesight made me an indifferent athlete, though I fenced well and even got my blue for it.

The neighborhood

Derived

mercurammonium, mercuric acid, mercuric chloride, mercuric nitrate, mercurico-, mercuric oxide, mercuric sulfide, mercuric sulphide, methylmercuric, organomercuric, phenylmercuric, potassio-mercuric

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mercuric. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA