unguentum

From unguō (“I smear, I anoint”) +‎ -entus. Compare ōmentum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /unˈɡʷen.tum/, [ʊŋˈɡʷɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /unˈɡwen.tum/, [uŋˈɡwɛn̪t̪um]

unguentum n (genitive unguentī); second declension

1. ointment; perfume; unguent.
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmen 13 11-14:

     nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
     donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,
     quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
     totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.

     for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
     Venuses and Cupids have given,
     which when you smell it, you will ask the gods,
     to make you, Fabullus, all nose

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• In Plautus, the genitive plural is found as unguentum rather than unguentōrum.

• unguentāria
• unguentārium
• unguentārius
• unguentātus
• unguentō

• → English: unguent
• French: onguent
• → Galician: ungüento, ingüento (semi-learned)
• Italian: unguento
• Spanish: ungüento

• “unguentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “unguentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• unguentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “unguentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “unguentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin