quicksilver

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (uncountable) The metal mercury.
2. (broadly, uncountable) An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.

Adj

Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.

Verb

1. (transitive) To overlay with quicksilver.
2. (transitive) To treat with quicksilver.

Conceptes

mercuri

plata

imprevisible

inconstant

voluble

argent viu

hidrargir

número atómic 80

Sinònims

mercury

hydrargyrum

mercurial

erratic

fickle

Hg

liquid mercury

volatile

ore

atomic number 80

vacillant

vagarious

wavering

erratical

quick silver

cinnabar

off the deep end

fluid

flyaway

Mercury

money

💸

quick-witted

silver

uncertain

unpredictable

unstable

Traduccions

Quecksilber

mercure

mercurio

vif-argent

kwikzilver

υδράργυρος

mercurio

kwik

mercúrio

argento vivo

azogue

cıva

hydrargyrum

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: quyk silver

Heretat de anglès antic: cwicseolfor

Cognat amb llatí: argentum vivum

Cognat amb neerlandès: kwikzilver

Cognat amb alemany: Quecksilber

Cognat amb danès: kviksølv

Cognat amb noruec bokmål: kvikksølv

Cognat amb suec: kvicksilver

In summary

From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vivum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver.