electuarium

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēlectuārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.lɛk.tyˈaː.ri.ʏm/, /eːˌlɛk.tyˈaː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: elec‧tu‧a‧ri‧um

Noun

electuarium n (plural electuaria)

1. electuary (medicine mixed with honey or some kind of syrup)

   Synonym: likkepot

Latin

Alternative forms

• ēlectārium

Etymology

Probably a corruption of Ancient Greek ἐκλεικτόν (ekleiktón, “medicine that melts in the mouth, lozenge, jujube”), from ἐκλείχω (ekleíkhō, “to lick up”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.lek.tuˈaː.ri.um/, [eːɫ̪ɛkt̪uˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.lek.tuˈa.ri.um/, [elekt̪uˈäːrium]

Noun

ēlectuārium n (genitive ēlectuāriī or ēlectuārī); second declension

1. An electuary: a medicine mixed with honey or other sweetener to ease oral consumption.
2. (Medieval Latin) Prescription medicine generally.
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris:

     Uncia vero in electuariis consistit ex viginti denariis

     In truth, the ounce in medicines is formed from twenty pennyweight.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēlectuārium	ēlectuāria
Genitive	ēlectuāriī ēlectuārī1	ēlectuāriōrum
Dative	ēlectuāriō	ēlectuāriīs
Accusative	ēlectuārium	ēlectuāria
Ablative	ēlectuāriō	ēlectuāriīs
Vocative	ēlectuārium	ēlectuāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: electuari
• → Czech: lektvar (“potion”)
• → Dutch: electuarium
• → Dutch: likkepot (calque)
• → English: electuary (“medicine”)
• Italian: elettuario, lattovaro
• Old French: letuaire
  • → French: électuaire (“medicine”), lectuaire
  • → Middle High German: latwārje
    • German: Latwerge
• → Slovak: lekvár (“marmelade”)
  • → Hungarian: lekvár (“marmelade”)
    • → English: lekvar
• → Spanish: electuario, letuario

See also

• apothecary's Latin

References

• “electuarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• electuarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• electuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.