The corpus record — Latin

unctio

unctio · f

a besmearing. anointing

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 9 · 8.02/10k
De Baptismo 3 · 7.02/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
De Medicina 22 · 2.15/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

unctĭo — Lewis & Short

unctĭo, ōnis, f.ungo,

I a besmearing. anointing.

I Lit.: sudatoriae, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 73: cottidiana, Col. 12, 53, 3. philosophorum omnes unctionis causā relinquunt, i. e. to go and anoint themselves for wrestling in the palæstra, Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 21; Quint. 11, 3, 19.—

II Transf., an ointment, unguent: ita ut unctio inarescat, Plin. 28, 11, 47, § 171.

In the wild

unctionem Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p7
unctio Celsus, De Medicina 8.10.p7
unctioneque Celsus, De Medicina 3.14
unctionem Celsus, De Medicina 3.16
unctio Celsus, De Medicina 1.2.p4
unctionem Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 11

6 of 52 attestations shown.

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.