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πŸœ‚

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🜂 U+1F702, 🜂
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR FIRE
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Translingual

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Design

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An 'up' triangle, because fire rises.

Symbol

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πŸœ‚

  1. (alchemy) fire, ignis (one of the Classical elements)

Derived terms

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  1. 🜁

English

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Noun

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πŸœ‚ (uncountable)

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of fire.
    • 1797, Sigismund Bacstrom, transl., Chemical Moon-Shine: Wherein is Demonstrated the True Subject of Philosophy, Where We are to Look for it, & How it is to be Prepared:
      It is of a Strange and wonderful Origin, it has inexhaustible properties, it is neither hot nor dry like πŸœ‚, nor Cold nor humid like πŸœ„, nor Cold nor dry like πŸœƒ, but it is a mixture of all the Elements;

Latin

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Proper noun

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πŸœ‚ m (genitive πŸœ‚is); third declension

  1. (alchemy) Abbreviation of ignis (β€œfire”).
    • 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 106:
      judico notabile quod ultimo πŸœ‚e arenae ascenderet.
      I consider it notable that it would ascend in the last fire of sand.

Declension

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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative πŸœ‚ πŸœ‚Δ“s
genitive πŸœ‚is πŸœ‚um
dative πŸœ‚Δ« πŸœ‚ibus
accusative πŸœ‚em πŸœ‚Δ“s
ablative πŸœ‚e πŸœ‚ibus
vocative πŸœ‚ πŸœ‚Δ“s