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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- onguent (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]unguent (plural unguents)
- Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
- 1809–1812, William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque:
- "Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
- a. 1864, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece:
- So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
- 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic:
- Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]cream applied to the skin for a therapeutic purpose — see ointment
Adjective
[edit]unguent (not comparable)
- Taking the form of a cream or ointment.
- 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part II. A Game of Chess.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 18:
- In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]
See also
[edit]Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]unguent
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin unguentum.
Noun
[edit]unguent n (plural unguente)
Declension
[edit]Declension of unguent
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) unguent | unguentul | (niște) unguente | unguentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) unguent | unguentului | (unor) unguente | unguentelor |
vocative | unguentule | unguentelor |
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