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Latin
Etymology 1
From unctus + -ō. Attested in late Latin-Greek glosses[1] such as one in the Hermeneumata Leidensia,[2] a work attributed to Dositheus.
Verb
unctō (present infinitive unctāre, perfect active unctāvī, supine unctātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)?
- to grease, rub with oil
Conjugation
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “untar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 715
- ^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1892) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. Accedunt hermeneumata medicobotanica vetustiora, volume III, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 70: “λελειπομενον unctatum”
Etymology 2
Participle
ūnctō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ūnctus
Portuguese
Verb
uncto
- first-person singular present indicative of unctar