oleamen

English

Etymology

Latin oleum (“olive oil”), probably via *oleamen (-men is an alternative neuter suffix).

Noun

oleamen (uncountable)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A soft ointment prepared from oil.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oleamen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• neomale

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Latin

Etymology

From oleum (“olive oil”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /o.leˈaː.men/, [ɔɫ̪eˈäːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.leˈa.men/, [oleˈäːmen]

Noun

oleāmen n (genitive oleāminis); third declension

1. an ointment containing olive oil

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleāmen	oleāmina
Genitive	oleāminis	oleāminum
Dative	oleāminī	oleāminibus
Accusative	oleāmen	oleāmina
Ablative	oleāmine	oleāminibus
Vocative	oleāmen	oleāmina

Synonyms

• (oil ointment): oleāmentum, unguentum

Related terms

• olea
• oleāceus
• oleāris
• oleārius

• oleātus
• oleōsus
• oleum

References

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