'''Alkali''' vel '''alcali''',<ref>[[Stephanus Blancardus]], ''[[Lexicon Medicum]]'' (1748), lemma [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/blanckaert/blanckaert1/jpg/s049.html 'alkali'.]</ref> '''alcali'''<ref>[[Stephanus Blancardus]], ''[[Lexicon Medicum]]'' (1748), lemma [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/blanckaert/blanckaert1/jpg/s042.html 'alcali'.]</ref> (-lis, ''n.''),<ref>Saepe indecl. in singulari, sive plurale tantum: Philippus Wilde, ''De alcalibus per urinam excretis'' (1855), in [http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/10062/3339/1/wilde.pdf titulo] et passim.</ref> vel '''alcalium'''<ref>Antonius Henricus van der Boon Mesch, 'Responsio ad quaestionem physicam' in ''Annales Academiae Lugduno-Batavae'' 1823-1824 (1825), [http://books.google.com/books?hl=nl&id=G2rEJZZniJgC&dq=alcaliorum&q=Alcaliorum#v=snippet&q=Alcaliorum&f=false p.31] et passim.</ref> (a nomine [[Lingua Arabica|Arabico]] القلي ''al-qili'', h.e. [[potassa]], a verbo قلی ''qalā'', h.e. 'coquere'),<ref>Raja Tazi, ''Arabismen im Deutschen'' (1998), [http://books.google.com/books?id=GHaGxm4TZ5wC&pg=PA136&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=ACfU3U089pbNHIaZhI6iKt8y-h2XQgSQQQ#PPA115,M1 pp.115–116.]</ref> in [[chemia]] est [[sal]] [[basis (chemia)|basicus]] [[ion]]ta [[Metallum alkalinum|metalli alkalini]] aut [[Metallum alkalinum terrestre|metalli alkalini terrestris]] continens, qui in aqua solutus [[solutio]]nem basicam efficit.