philosopher's stone

Etymology
Misconstruction of, from , a calque of.

Noun

 * 1)  A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver,  also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.
 * 2) * 1997, Christopher McIntosh, The Rosicrucians: The History, Mythology, and Rituals of an Esoteric Order, Weiser Books, 3rd Revised Edition, 1998, Paperback, page 51,
 * The Rosicrucianism of the Andreae era was only partly concerned with alchemy, but later revivals of the Rosicrucian idea were to lay great stress on their claims to possess the secrets of transmutation and the knowledge of the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life.
 * 1)  A piece of said substance.
 * 1)  A piece of said substance.
 * 1)  A piece of said substance.

Synonyms

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Translations

 * Albanian: guri filozofal
 * Arabic: حَجَر اَلْفَلَاسِفَة
 * Armenian: փիլիսոփայական քար
 * Belarusian: філасо́фскі ка́мень
 * Breton: maen ar furien
 * Bulgarian: филосо́фският ка́мък
 * Catalan: pedra filosofal
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 魔法石, ,
 * Czech: kámen mudrců
 * Danish: vises sten
 * Dutch: steen der wijzen
 * Esperanto: ŝtono de la saĝuloj
 * Estonian: tarkade kivi
 * Faroese: vitramannasteinurin
 * Finnish: viisasten kivi
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფილოსოფიური ქვა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: પારસમણિ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: पारस पत्थर,, , , , , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: viskusteinn
 * Indonesian: batu bertuah
 * Irish: órchloch
 * Italian: pietra filosofale, crisopea
 * Japanese: 賢者の石
 * Khmer: សិលា​ទេព
 * Korean: 마법사-의 돌
 * Latin: lapis philosophorum
 * Latvian: filozofu akmens
 * Lithuanian: išminties akmuo
 * Low German: Wunnersteen
 * Malay: batu hikmat
 * Norwegian: de vises stein
 * Persian: سنگ جادو, سنگ فلاسفه
 * Polish: kamień filozoficzny,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: камен мудрости, камен мудраца
 * Roman: kamen mudrosti, kamen mudraca
 * Slovak: kameň mudrcov
 * Slovene: kamen modrosti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bato ng pilosopo
 * Thai: ศิลาอาถรรพ์,
 * Turkish: felsefe taşı
 * Ukrainian: філосо́фський ка́мінь
 * Uyghur: پەلسەپە تېشى
 * Vietnamese: hòn đá phù thủy, đá tạo vàng