Mercury

See also: mercury

English

Mercury astronomical symbol

Etymology

From Middle English Mercurie, from Latin Mercurius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɝkjəɹi/

• Audio (US):

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Proper noun

Mercury

2. (astronomy) The planet in the solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.
4. (Roman mythology) The Roman god associated with speed, sometimes used as a messenger. He wore winged sandals. Mercury corresponded to the Greek god Hermes.

Translations

planet

• Afrikaans: Mercurius (af)
• Albanian: Merkur
• Arabic: عُطَارِد m (ʕuṭārid)
• Armenian: Մերկուրի (Merkuri), Փայլածու (Pʻaylacu)
• Assamese: বুধ (budh)
• Asturian: Mercuriu m
• Azerbaijani: Ütarid

  Cyrillic: Үтарид

• Basque: Merkurio (eu)
• Belarusian: Мерку́рый m (Mjerkúryj), Мэрку́рый m (Merkúryj) (Taraškievica orthography)
• Bengali: বুধ (budh)
• Breton: Merc'her (br)
• Bulgarian: Мерку́рий m (Merkúrij)
• Burmese: ဗုဒ္ဓဟူး (my) (buddha.hu:)
• Catalan: Mercuri (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎹᏓᎵ (madali)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 水星 (seoi² sing¹)

  Mandarin: 水星 (zh) (Shuǐxīng)

  Min Nan: 水星 (zh-min-nan) (chúi-chheⁿ, chúi-chhiⁿ)

• Chuvash: Мерку́рий (Merk̬úrij)
• Cornish: Merher m
• Crimean Tatar: Utarit
• Czech: Merkur (cs)
• Danish: Merkur (da)
• Dutch: Mercurius (nl) f
• Esperanto: Merkuro (eo)
• Estonian: Merkuur (et)
• Finnish: Merkurius (fi)
• French: Mercure (fr) f
• Galician: Mercurio (gl) m
• Georgian: მერკური (merḳuri)
• German: Merkur (de) m
• Greek: Ερμής (el) m (Ermís)

  Ancient: ἀνάγκη f (anánkē)

• Gujarati: બુધ (budh)
• Hawaiian: Ukalialiʻi
• Hebrew: חַמָּה (he) f (khamá)
• Hindi: बुध (hi) m (budh), तीर (hi) m (tīr)
• Hungarian: Merkúr (hu)
• Icelandic: Merkúríus (is)
• Ido: Merkuro (io)
• Indonesian: Merkurius, Utarid
• Interlingua: Mercurio m
• Irish: Mearcair m
• Italian: Mercurio (it) m
• Japanese: 水星 (ja) (すいせい, Suisei), マーキュリー (Mākyurī)
• Kazakh: Болпан (Bolpan), Меркурий (Merkurii)
• Khmer: ផ្កាយពុធ (phkaay put), ពុធ (km) (put)
• Korean: 수성 (Suseong) (水星 (ko)), 진성 (Jinseong) (辰星)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Zawe (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Меркурий (Merkuriy)
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• Lao: ພຸດ (phut), ດາວພຸດ (lo) (dāo phut)
• Latin: Mercurius (la) m
• Latvian: Merkurs m
• Lithuanian: Merkurijus (lt) m
• Macedonian: Меркур m (Merkur)
• Malay: Utarid (ms)
• Maltese: Merkurju m
• Manchu: ᠮᡠᡴᡝ
  ᡠᠰᡳ᠍ᡥᠠ (muke usiha)
• Maori: Apārangi, Takero
• Middle Persian: tyl
• Mongolian: Буд (Bud)
• Navajo: Mókiwii
• Norwegian: Merkur (no)
• Novial:
• Oriya: ବୁଧ (or) (budhô)
• Pashto: عطارد (ps) m (atāród)
• Persian: تیر (fa) (tir), عطارد (fa) ('otâred), زاووش (fa) (zāvūš)
• Polish: Merkury (pl) m
• Portuguese: Mercúrio (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬੁੱਧ (buddha)
• Romanian: Mercur (ro) m
• Russian: Мерку́рий (ru) m (Merkúrij)
• Sanskrit: बुध (sa) m (budha)
• Santali: ᱮᱞᱟᱝ ᱮᱸᱜᱮᱞ (elaṅ ẽgel)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Меркур m

  Roman: Merkur (sh) m

• Slovak: Merkúr m
• Slovene: Merkúr (sl) m
• Sotho: Mekhuri
• Spanish: Mercurio (es) m
• Swahili: Utaridi (sw), Zebaki (sw)
• Swedish: Merkurius (sv) c
• Tagalog: Merkuryo
• Tajik: Уторид (tg) (Utorid), Тир (Tir)
• Tamil: புதன் (ta) (putaṉ)
• Tatar: Merkuri
• Telugu: బుధుడు (te) (budhuḍu)
• Thai: ดาวพุธ (daaw-pút)
• Tibetan: ལྷག་པ (lhag pa)
• Turkish: Merkür (tr), Utarit (tr) (archaic)
• Turkmen: Merkuriý
• Ukrainian: Мерку́рій m (Merkúrij)
• Urdu: عطارد m (utārid), تیر m (tīr)
• Uyghur: مېركۇرى (mërkuri), ئارزۇ (arzu), ئاتارۇت (atarut)
• Uzbek: Atorud

  Cyrillic: Аторуд (Atorud)

• Vietnamese: sao Thủy (―水)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: Mercher (cy) m
• West Frisian: Merkurius
• Yiddish: מערקור m (merkur)
• Zulu: uMerkuriyu

Roman god

• Armenian: Մերկուրի (Merkuri)
• Asturian: Mercuriu m
• Belarusian: Мерку́рый m (Mjerkúryj), Мэрку́рый m (Merkúryj) (Taraškievica orthography)
• Breton: Merc'her (br)
• Bulgarian: Мерку́рий m (Merkúrij)
• Catalan: Mercuri (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎹᏓᎵ (madali)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 墨丘利 (mak⁶ jau¹ lei⁶)

  Mandarin: 墨丘利 (zh) (Mòqiūlì)

• Cornish: Merher m
• Czech: Merkur (cs) m
• Dutch: Mercurius (nl) m
• Esperanto: Merkuro (eo) m
• Estonian: Mercurius
• Finnish: Merkurius (fi)
• French: Mercure (fr) m
• Galician: Mercurio (gl) m
• Georgian: მერკური (merḳuri)
• German: Merkur (de) m
• Greek: Ερμής (el) m (Ermís)
• Hebrew: מֶרְקוּרְיוּס m (merkúrius)
• Hungarian: Merkúr (hu)
• Icelandic: Merkúríus (is) m
• Interlingua: Mercurio m
• Irish: Mearcair m
• Italian: Mercurio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: メルクリウス (ja) (Merukuriusu), マーキュリー (Mākyurī)
• Khmer: ពុធ (km) (puth)
• Korean: 메르쿠리우스 (Mereukuriuseu)
• Latin: Mercurius (la) m
• Latvian: Merkurs m, Merkūrijs m
• Lithuanian: Merkurijus (lt) m
• Macedonian: Меркур m (Merkur)
• Maltese: Merkurju m
• Persian: مرکوری (merkuri)
• Polish: Merkury (pl) m
• Portuguese: Mercúrio (pt) m
• Romanian: Mercur (ro) m
• Russian: Мерку́рий (ru) m (Merkúrij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Меркур m

  Roman: Merkur (sh) m

• Slovak: Merkúr m
• Slovene: Merkúr (sl) m
• Spanish: Mercurio (es) m
• Swahili: Merkyuri
• Swedish: Merkurius (sv)
• Tatar: Merkuri
• Turkish: Merkür (tr)
• Ukrainian: Мерку́рій m (Merkúrij)
• Vietnamese: Thần Méc-cua, thần Mẹt-cu-rơ
• Welsh: Mercher (cy) m
• Zulu: uMerkuriyu

See also

• (planets of the Solar System) planets of the Solar System; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star	Sun
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Moon	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymede Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

Noun

Mercury (plural Mercuries)

1. (dated) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger.
2. (dated) A newspaper.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Babington Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     No allusion to it is to be found in the monthly Mercuries.

Further reading

• Mercury (planet) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mercury (mythology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Mercury”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle English

Proper noun

Mercury

1. Alternative form of Mercurie

References

• “Mercuri(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 13 June 2018.