unctura

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from ungō.

Noun

ūnctūra f (genitive ūnctūrae); first declension

1. an anointing (of the dead)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūnctūra	ūnctūrae
genitive	ūnctūrae	ūnctūrārum
dative	ūnctūrae	ūnctūrīs
accusative	ūnctūram	ūnctūrās
ablative	ūnctūrā	ūnctūrīs
vocative	ūnctūra	ūnctūrae

Related terms

• unctum
• unctus

Descendants

• → Albanian: yndyrë
• Aromanian: umturã
• Catalan: untura
• Middle French: ointure
• Megleno-Romanian: untură
• Portuguese: untura
• Romanian: untură
• Spanish: untura

References

• “unctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “unctura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• unctura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.