Etymograph

English

Mercury

Mercury comes from Latin Mercurius.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMercurius
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Mercurie
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1751Mercury

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEMercurius
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Mercurie
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1751Mercury

Earliest quotation: 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […]: “His Mercury having made his observations, reported, that there…”

Linked words

through Latin merx ‘merchandise’

market, commercial, commerce, mercy, merchant, merchandise, mercer, mercantile, mercenary, merci, mercantilism, 17 more

Today it means

name The first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit to the Sun, named after the god; represented by ☿.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Mercurius / Mercury

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