mercuryの意味・使い方・発音

mercury

['mɝkjəri]

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ラテン語のMercurius、ローマ神話の水星、商業の守護神から。ラテン語のmerx、商人、語源はmarket、商人と同じで、惑星水星を指すのに使われる。同時に、液体金属である水銀を指す言葉としても使われ、流動的で変化しやすい水銀を、常に変化し続ける商品市場になぞらえている。

mercury: mercury: [14] The Roman god Mercury got his name from his original role as patron of trade and tradesmen: Latin Mercurius was a derivative of merx ‘goods for sale’ (source of English commerce and merchant). The inspiration for the medieval application of the term to the fluid metal was its use as a planet-name, which dates from the classical Latin period.
=> commerce, merchant
Mercury: "the Roman god Mercury," mid-12c., from Latin Mercurius "Mercury," originally a god of tradesmen and thieves, from merx "merchandise" (see market (n.)); or perhaps [Klein, Tucker] from Etruscan and influenced by merx. Later he was associated with Greek Hermes. The planet closest to the sun so called in classical Latin (late 14c. in English). A hypothetical inhabitant of the planet was a Mercurean (1855) or a Mercurian (1868). For the metallic element, see mercury.
mercury (n.): silver-white fluid metallic element, late 14c., from Medieval Latin mercurius, from Latin Mercurius (see Mercury). Prepared from cinnabar, it was one of the seven metals (bodies terrestrial) known to the ancients, which were coupled in astrology and alchemy with the seven known heavenly bodies. This one probably so associated for its mobility. The others were Sun/gold, Moon/silver, Mars/iron, Saturn/lead, Jupiter/tin, Venus/copper. The Greek name for it was hydrargyros "liquid silver," which gives the element its symbol, Hg. Compare quicksilver.

1. That night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero.: その夜、温度計は気温が零下30度まで下がったことを示した。

2.Freddie Mercury was a flamboyant star of the British hard rock scene.

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