The corpus record — Latin

unguento

unguento · v. a

to rub with sweet ointments

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Where it lives

Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

unguento — Lewis & Short

unguento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to rub with sweet ointments, to anoint, perfume (in verb. finit. very rare): DEAS VNGVENTAVERVNT, Inscr. Fratr. Arval. Orell. 2271, 391 (cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 35, § 77).—More freq. in part. perf.: unguentātus, a, um, anointed, perfumed: unguentatus per vias, ignave, incedis, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 23: cincinni, id. Truc. 2, 2, 32: homo, P. Scipio Afric. ap. Gell. 7, 12, 5; Sen. Fragm. ib. 12, 2, 11: maritus, Cat. 61, 142.

In the wild

unguentatos Plautus, Truculentus 2.2
unguentatus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.12.5
unguentatos Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 12.2.11
unguentatos Suetonius, Divus Julius 67.1

Where it came from

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