unctus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuːŋk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuŋk.tus]

Perfect passive participle of ungō.

ūnctus (feminine ūncta, neuter ūnctum, comparative unctior); first/second-declension participle

1. anointed
2. of the bottoms or hulls of boats or ships: having been coated, prepared, or made seaworthy or watertight, using pitch, pine-tar, or tar; having been tarred
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.397–398:

     Tum vērō Teucrī incumbunt, et lītore celsās
     dēdūcunt tōtō nāvēs: Natat ūncta carīnā.

     Truly then [did] the Trojans set to work, and draw down their tall ships all along the shore: [Each] hull, [freshly] tarred, is afloat [once more].

3. greasy, oily

First/second-declension adjective.

• ūnctum

From ungō + -tus (forming action nouns).

ūnctus m (genitive ūnctūs); fourth declension

1. an anointing, anointment

Fourth-declension noun.

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