emplastrum

English

Noun

emplastrum (plural emplastrums)

1. (medicine, surgery) A medical plaster or dressing made from a soft mixture of drugs, balms, or adhesives spread on cloth or paper.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron, “daub; salve”) which was introduced by Pedanius Dioscorides instead of older (Hippocrates) ἔμπλαστον (émplaston), substantivisation of ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed on”), from ἐμπλάσσω (emplássō, “daub on”), from ἐν- (en-, “on”) + πλάσσω (plássō, “to mold, form”), of uncertain etymology. Related to Latin plastēs and plasticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛmˈpɫas.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [emˈplas.trum]

Noun

emplastrum n (genitive emplastrī); second declension

1. (medicine) plaster, bandage
2. (horticulture) piece of bark used in budding, scutcheon, shield

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	emplastrum	emplastra
genitive	emplastrī	emplastrōrum
dative	emplastrō	emplastrīs
accusative	emplastrum	emplastra
ablative	emplastrō	emplastrīs
vocative	emplastrum	emplastra

Descendants

• Old French: emplastre
  • → English: emplaster
  • French: emplâtre
  • Norman: empliâtre
• Italian: impiastro
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *plastrum
  • Aragonese: plaste (Cheso)
  • Old Franco-Provençal: plaustro, plastre
    • Franco-Provençal: plâtro
  • Old French: plastre, plaistre, platre ([11th c.])
    • French: plâtre
    • → Medieval Latin: plastrum [13th c.]
  • Old Occitan: plastre
    • Occitan: plastre
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *plastr (see there for further descendants)

References

• “emplastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "emplastrum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “emplastrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.