unctio

unctio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin ungō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin ūnctiō

    From ungō + -tiō.

    Noun

    ūnctiō f (genitive ūnctiōnis); third declension

    1. anointing
    2. ointment, unguent

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative ūnctiō ūnctiōnēs
    genitive ūnctiōnis ūnctiōnum
    dative ūnctiōnī ūnctiōnibus
    accusative ūnctiōnem ūnctiōnēs
    ablative ūnctiōne ūnctiōnibus
    vocative ūnctiō ūnctiōnēs

    Descendants

    • Old Galician-Portuguese: hunçon, onçon
    • → Catalan: unció
    • → French: onction
    • → Italian: unzione
    • → Romanian: uncțiune
    • → Spanish: unción

    References

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