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unguent

Meaningointment

Common meaning: an ointment

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√ANG‘anoint, smear’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 13, p. 731 · scan
  2. Latinunguō; unguentum‘to smear with oil’
  3. Englishunguent‘an ointment’ · today

ungu also in: ointment

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin unguō; unguentum ‘to smear with oil’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry unguō, p. 1931 · dictionary scan

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