The corpus record — Latin

ūmectātĭo

ūmectātĭo · f

a moistening

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What it meant

ūmectātĭo — Lewis & Short

ūmectātĭo (hūmec-), ōnis, f.umecto,

I a moistening, watering, moisture: oris nauseabilis, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 2, 18: inimica (agri), Cassiod. Var. 10, 26.—Absol., Isid. 4, 7, 4; 20, 2, 16.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.