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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of ungō.
Pronunciation
Participle
ūnctus (feminine ūncta, neuter ūnctum, comparative unctior); first/second-declension participle
- anointed
- of the bottoms or hulls of boats or ships: having been coated, prepared, or made seaworthy or watertight, using pitch, pine-tar, or tar; having been tarred
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.397–398:
- Tum vērō Teucrī incumbunt, et lītore celsās
dēdūcunt tōtō nāvēs: Natat ūncta carīnā.- Truly then the Trojans set to work, and draw down their tall ships all along the shore: hull, tarred, is afloat .
- greasy, oily
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “unctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “unctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- unctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.