unguentum

== Latin == === Etymology === From unguō (“I smear, I anoint”) +‎ -entus. Compare ōmentum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊŋˈɡʷɛn.tũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [uŋˈɡʷɛn.tum] === Noun === unguentum n (genitive unguentī); second declension ointment; perfume; unguent. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). In Plautus, the genitive plural is found as unguentum rather than unguentōrum. ==== Derived terms ==== unguentāria unguentārium unguentārius unguentātus unguentō ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: unguent French: onguent → Galician: ungüento, unguento (reintegrationist), ingüento (semi-learned) Italian: unguento Spanish: ungüento === References === “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