menstruum

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English

Etymology

From Latin mēnstruum (“menstrual discharge”).

Pronunciation

Noun

menstruum (plural menstruums or menstrua)

  1. (chiefly in the plural, historical) The menses; menstrual discharge.
  3. (historical) A solvent.
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:
      Whenever any menstruum or other additament is employed, together with the fire, to obtain a sulphur or a salt from a body, we may well take the freedom to examine, whether or no the menstruum do barely help to separate the principle obtained by it...
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
      [T]hat combustible sulphureous Body is presently prey'd upon and devoured by the aereal incompassing Menstruum, whose office in this Particular I have shewn in the Explication of Charcole.
    • 1812, Humphry Davy, The Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Introduction:
      The analysis of mineral bodies... refined by the application of acid and alkaline menstrua, by Margraaf, Bergman, Bayen, and Achard, received still greater improvements from the labours of Klaprothk, Vauquelin, and Hatchett.
  4. Any liquid medium

Derived terms

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Substantive of mēnstruus (“of or pertaining to a month, monthly”), from mēnsis (“month”).

Noun

mēnstruum n (genitive mēnstruī); second declension

  1. a monthly payment
  2. a monthly term of office or service
  3. (in the plural) menstrual discharge
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mēnstruum mēnstrua
Genitive mēnstruī mēnstruōrum
Dative mēnstruō mēnstruīs
Accusative mēnstruum mēnstrua
Ablative mēnstruō mēnstruīs
Vocative mēnstruum mēnstrua

Etymology 2

Inflected form of mēnstruus (“of or pertaining to a month, monthly”).

Adjective

mēnstruum

  1. inflection of mēnstruus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular

References

  • “menstruum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • menstruum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • monthly interest: usura menstrua
  • “menstruum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “menstruum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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