ceroma

ceroma (countable and uncountable, plural ceromata)

1. A mixture of oil and wax.
2. (historical) A cloth with which ancient wrestlers rubbed themselves, to make their limbs not only more sleek and less capable of gripping, but more pliable and fit for exercise.

1728, Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

• Camero, Morace, amorce

From Ancient Greek κήρωμα (kḗrōma, “wrestlers' ointment; wrestling ring”), from κηρόω (kēróō, “to apply wax to”), from κηρός (kērós, “wax”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [keːˈroː.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃeˈrɔː.ma]

cērōma n (genitive cērōmatis); third declension

1. an ointment for wrestlers, a mixture of oil and wax
2. (figuratively) the place for wrestling, the ring

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

The accusative plural cērōmas and ablative plural cērōmatis (vowel quantities uncertain) are attested.

• cērōmaticus

• “ceroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ceroma”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers