The corpus record — Latin

unctito

unctito · v. freq. a

to besmear

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Where it lives

Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

unctĭto — Lewis & Short

unctĭto, āre, v. freq. a.id.,

I to besmear or anoint often (ante-class.): se unguentis, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 117: flavo cinere (crinem), Cato ap. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 698.

In the wild

unctito Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.6.3
unctitant Plautus, Mostellaria 1.3
unctito Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 9.6.3

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.