emplastrum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron, “daub; salve”) which was introduced by Pedanius Dioscorides instead of older (Hippocrates) ἔμπλαστον (émplaston), substantivisation of ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed on”), from ἐμπλάσσω (emplássō, “daub on”), from ἐν- (en-, “on”) + πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, form”), of uncertain etymology. Related to Latin plastēs and plasticus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /emˈplas.trum/, [ɛmˈpɫ̪äs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /emˈplas.trum/, [emˈpläst̪rum]

emplastrum n (genitive emplastrī); second declension

1. (medicine) plaster, bandage
2. (horticulture) piece of bark used in budding, scutcheon, shield

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• *plastrum
  • Medieval Latin: plastrum
  • Old French: plastre, plaistre
    • French: plâtre
    • → English: plaster
  • Old English: plaster

• “emplastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• emplastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• emplastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette