collyrium

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English

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Etymology

From Latin collȳrium, from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “poultice”). Doublet of koulouri.

Pronunciation

Noun

collyrium (countable and uncountable, plural collyria or collyriums)

  1. A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
      Democritus' collyrium is not so sovereign to the eyes as this is to the heart […]
  2. Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
      there were rings of collyrium about her eyes.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “eye salve”).

Pronunciation

Noun

collȳrium n (genitive collȳriī or collȳrī); second declension

  1. eye-salve
  2. pessary, suppository

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative collȳrium collȳria
genitive collȳriī
collȳrī1 		collȳriōrum
dative collȳriō collȳriīs
accusative collȳrium collȳria
ablative collȳriō collȳriīs
vocative collȳrium collȳria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

  • “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • collyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “collyrium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “collyrium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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