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Latin
Etymology
From unguō (“I smear, I anoint”) + -entus. Compare ōmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
unguentum n (genitive unguentī); second declension
- ointment; perfume; unguent.
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmen 13 11-14:
- nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,
quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.- for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
Venuses and Cupids have given,
which when you smell it, you will ask the gods,
to make you, Fabullus, all nose
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
- In Plautus, the genitive plural is found as unguentum rather than unguentōrum.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “unguentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “unguentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- unguentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “unguentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “unguentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin