unguentum

From unguō (“I smear, I anoint”) +‎ -entus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /unˈɡʷen.tum/, [ʊŋˈɡʷɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /unˈɡwen.tum/, [uŋˈɡwɛn̪t̪um]

unguentum n (genitive unguentī); second declension

1. ointment; perfume; unguent.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• In Plautus, the genitive plural is found as unguentum rather than unguentōrum.

• unguentāria
• unguentārium
• unguentārius
• unguentātus
• unguentō

• → English: unguent
• French: onguent
• → Galician: ungüento, ingüento (semi-learned)
• Italian: unguento
• Spanish: ungüento

• “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