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Mercurius

noun

Mercurius is a noun meaning “A male given name from Latin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-R-C-U-R-I-U-S, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Mercurius mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Latin.

  2. 2

    A homeopathic remedy involving mercury.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Mercurius

  • Merkurios

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Mercurius?

Mercurius appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Mercurius come from?

From Latin Mercurius, of uncertain origin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).