elaterium

See also: Elaterium

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

elaterium (uncountable)

1. Synonym of elaterin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “elaterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /e.laˈteː.ri.um/, [ɛɫ̪äˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.laˈte.ri.um/, [eläˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

elatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension

1. (medicine) a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
   • c. 43 CE – 46 CE, Scribonius Largus, Compositiones medicamentorum 70:^[1]

     LXX. Facit bene et hoc medicamentum: Fellis taurini p. 𐆖 II, elaterii, qui est sucus cucumeris silvatici, p. 𐆖 I, cachyros animati p. 𐆖 I; tritum melle admixto reponitur.

2. (New Latin) squirting cucumber

   Synonyms: cucumis silvāticus, cucumis agrestis, notion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	elatērium	elatēria
genitive	elatēriī elatērī1	elatēriōrum
dative	elatēriō	elatēriīs
accusative	elatērium	elatēria
ablative	elatēriō	elatēriīs
vocative	elatērium	elatēria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “elaterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elaterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.