tetrapharmacum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See tetra- (“four”) and Latin pharmacum (“drug”).
Noun
[edit]tetrapharmacum (uncountable)
- (medicine, obsolete) A combination of wax, resin, lard, and pitch, composing an ointment.
- 1831, Alexander Lee, Aur. Cor. Celsus on Medicine:
- When the inflammation shall have ceased , the wound should be cleansed , and linen dipped in honey will answer this purpose best ; and over that must be applied the same plaster (tetrapharmacum) or the enneapharmacum.
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]tētrapharmacum n (genitive tētrapharmacī); second declension
- A substance composed of four ingredients
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tētrapharmacum | tētrapharmaca |
| genitive | tētrapharmacī | tētrapharmacōrum |
| dative | tētrapharmacō | tētrapharmacīs |
| accusative | tētrapharmacum | tētrapharmaca |
| ablative | tētrapharmacō | tētrapharmacīs |
| vocative | tētrapharmacum | tētrapharmaca |
References
[edit]- “tetrapharmacum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tetrapharmacum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.