1. unctus — Lewis & Short
unctus, a, um, P. a. of ungo.
Part. andThe corpus record — Latin
unctus2
unctus2 · P. a
Part. and P. a. of ungo
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
- Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
- Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
- Epistulae 2 · 2.02/10k
- De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
- Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
- Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
- Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
- Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
- Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
- Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
- De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. unctus — Lewis & Short
unctus, ūs, m.ungo,
I an anointing, anointment:
oleum unctui profer,App. M. 1, p. 113, 3:
cochlearum cinis cum melle unctu sanat,Plin. 30, 10, 27, § 90 (al. linitu).
In the wild
- uncta Horace, Epodon 5.19
- uncta Vergil, Aeneid 8.91
- unctior Cicero, Brutus 78
- uncta Ausonius, Parentalia 7.9
- unctior Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.54
- uncta Martial, Epigrammata 14.43.2
6 of 31 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.