lunificatio
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lūna (“moon, Moon; silver”) + -ficō (“-ify”) + -tiō (“-tion”). Compare sōlificātiō.
Noun
[edit]lūnificātiō f (genitive lūnificātiōnis); third declension
- (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
[edit]Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lūnificātiō | lūnificātiōnēs |
| genitive | lūnificātiōnis | lūnificātiōnum |
| dative | lūnificātiōnī | lūnificātiōnibus |
| accusative | lūnificātiōnem | lūnificātiōnēs |
| ablative | lūnificātiōne | lūnificātiōnibus |
| vocative | lūnificātiō | lūnificātiōnēs |