fomentum

== Latin == === Etymology === Contraction of *fovimentum, from foveō (“keep warm; support, assist”) +‎ -mentum (compare mōmentum, from moveō). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [foːˈmɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [foˈmɛn.tum] === Noun === fōmentum n (genitive fōmentī); second declension (medicine, usually in the plural) A warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation. (by extension) Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder. (figuratively) A remedy, lenitive, mitigation, alleviation. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== (kindling-wood): fōmes ==== Derived terms ==== fōmentō fōmentātiō ==== Related terms ==== fōmes ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: foment Galician: fomento Italian: fomento Portuguese: fomento Sicilian: fumentu Spanish: fomento === References === “fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fomentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "fomentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “fomentum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.