unctura

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from ungō.

Noun

ūnctūra f (genitive ūnctūrae); first declension

  1. an anointing (of the dead)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ūnctūra ūnctūrae
genitive ūnctūrae ūnctūrārum
dative ūnctūrae ūnctūrīs
accusative ūnctūram ūnctūrās
ablative ūnctūrā ūnctūrīs
vocative ūnctūra ūnctūrae

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: umturã
    • Megleno-Romanian: untură
    • Romanian: untură
    • → Albanian: yndyrë
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: untura
    • Old French: oynture, ointure
      • → Middle English: ointure
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  • “unctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “unctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • unctura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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