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

Etymology

Origin of unguentum

From Latin

Example Sentences

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 Kingsley, Charles

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

If the bone seems to be well consolidated, it should be rubbed with an ointment of dialthea or the unguentum marciation, after which the splints and bandage are to be reapplied.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer