The corpus record — Latin

unguentum

an ointment

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Where it lives

Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
Mostellaria 5 · 5.2/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Satyricon 9 · 2.96/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Casina 2 · 2.58/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Epigrammata 13 · 2.31/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.26/10k

Densest 12 of 62 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

unguentum — Lewis & Short

unguentum, i (

I gen. plur. unguentūm, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 5; id. Poen. 3, 3, 88), n. unguo, an ointment, unguent, perfume: non omnes possunt olere unguenta exotica, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 41; 1, 3, 115 sq.; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 25, § 62; id. Cat. 2, 3, 5; id. Sest. 8, 18; id. Cael. 11, 27; id. Tusc. 5, 21, 62; Hor. C. 2, 3, 13; 2, 7, 23; id. A. P. 375; Prop. 3, 16 (4, 15), 23; Ov. F. 3, 561; Mart. 11, 54, 1; Plin. 1, 1, 1, § 3.

In the wild

unguentis Suetonius, C. Caligula 37.1
unguento Celsus, De Medicina 6.7.p1
unguentum Horace, De Arte Poetica liber 375
unguenti Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.14
unguentis Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.15
unguentoque Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.122.3.p1

6 of 210 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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