castoreum

English

Alternative forms

• castorium

Etymology

From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).

Noun

castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums or castorea)

1. The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers, used as a scent mark, and as a tincture in some perfumes.

   Synonym: castor

   • 1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 17, page 299:

     One of the substances tried was castoreum. […] If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.

   • 1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, “Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?”, in Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson, editors, Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284:

     While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.

   • 2004, Christian V. Stevens, Roland Verhé, Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications, page 257:

     Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the natural fragrant^[sic].

   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, “M7”, in Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 233:

     Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.

2. (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.

   Synonyms: beaver, castor

Translations

castor sac exudate

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جُنْدُبَادَسْتَر m (jundubādastar), خُصْيْة الْبَحْر f (ḵuṣya al-baḥr)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܣܛܘܪܝܘܢ m (/⁠qasṭōryōn⁠/)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: касто́реум m (kastóreum)
• Catalan: castori m
• Circassian:

  East Circassian: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: bevergeil (nl) n, castoreum (nl) n
• Finnish: majavanhausta, hauste
• French: castoréum (fr) m
• German: Bibergeil (de) n, Castoreum (de) n
• Greek: καστόριο n (kastório)

  Ancient Greek: καστόρειον n (kastóreion), καστόριον n (kastórion)

• Italian: castoreo m
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: castoreum n
• Macedonian: кастореум m (kastoreum)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: gjel n or m

• Persian: گندبیدستر (gonde-bidastar)
• Polish: strój bobrowy (pl) m, kastoreum (pl) n
• Portuguese: castóreo m
• Russian: бобро́вая струя́ f (bobróvaja strujá), касто́реум (ru) m (kastóreum)
• Serbo-Croatian: kastoreum m
• Slovene: kastoréum m
• Spanish: castóreo m
• Swedish: bävergäll (sv) c
• Tatar: кондыз агынтысы (qondız ağıntısı)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: جند بیدستر (cünd-i bidester)

• Ukrainian: бобро́ва струя́ f (bobróva strujá), касто́реум m (kastóreum)

hat — see castor

See also

• Castoreum (genus of Mesophelliaceae)

References

• Heusinger, Carl Friedrich (1852), Meletemata quaedam de antiquitatibus castorei et moschi (in Latin), Marburg: Elwert, 31 pp.

Anagrams

• outscream

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch castorium, from Latin castoreum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑs.toːˈreː.ʏm/, /ˌkɑsˈtoː.reː.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: cas‧to‧re‧um

Noun

castoreum n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. castoreum (exudate from castor sacs)

   Synonym: bevergeil

Derived terms

• castorboon
• castorolie
• castorzaad

Latin

Etymology

From castor +‎ -eum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kasˈtɔ.re.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kasˈtɔː.re.um]

Noun

castoreum n (genitive castoreī); second declension

1. castoreum, castor sac exudate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	castoreum	castorea
genitive	castoreī	castoreōrum
dative	castoreō	castoreīs
accusative	castoreum	castorea
ablative	castoreō	castoreīs
vocative	castoreum	castorea

References

• “castoreum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “castoreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press