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The corpus record — Latin

unctŭlus

unctŭlus

besmeared

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What it meant

unctŭlus — Lewis & Short

unctŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [unctus, from ungo], besmeared, anointed.
I Adj.: circumtonsi et terti atque unctuli, Varr. ap. Non. 179, 8.—*
II Subst.: unctŭlum, i, n., a little ointment, App. M. 3, p. 139, 2.

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.