unguentum

American  

[uhng-gwen-tuhm] / ʌŋˈgwɛn təm /

noun

• unguenta
  plural

1. (in prescriptions) ointment.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• unguenta
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of unguentum

From Latin

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Example Sentences

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unguentum

Also, unguentum album, or diapompholigos, spread upon a small piece of leather in form of a plaster, will not be amiss.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Antiphlogistine.—There are many clay poultices on the market: antiphlogistine, antithermoline, cretamethyl, sedol, unguentum, yorkelin, and the Emplastrum Kaolini of the U. S. Pharmacopœia.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

"Take unguentum populeum, and Vervain and Hypericon, and put a red-hot iron into it: You must anoint the back-bone, or wear it in your breast."

From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys

Oh, we are all barristers of Love’s court, Sir; we have Ovid’s gay science conned, Sir, ad unguentum, as they say, out of the French book.

From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley

The most certain cure is the unguentum aureum—not applied to the horse, but to the palm of the master of the inn or stable.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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