ceroma

== English == === Noun === ceroma (countable and uncountable, plural ceromata) A mixture of oil and wax. (historical) A cloth with which ancient wrestlers rubbed themselves, to make their limbs not only more sleek and less capable of gripping, but more pliable and fit for exercise. === References === 1728, Cyclopaedia. === Anagrams === Camero, Morace, amorce == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κήρωμα (kḗrōma, “wrestlers' ointment; wrestling ring”), from κηρόω (kēróō, “to apply wax to”), from κηρός (kērós, “wax”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [keːˈroː.ma] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈrɔː.ma] === Noun === cērōma n (genitive cērōmatis); third declension an ointment for wrestlers, a mixture of oil and wax (figuratively) the place for wrestling, the ring ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). The accusative plural cērōmas and ablative plural cērōmatis (vowel quantities uncertain) are attested. ==== Related terms ==== cērōmaticus === References === “ceroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ceroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers