epithema

From New Latin epithema, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “lid, cover”).

epithema (plural epithemata)

1. (zoology) A horny excrescence on the top of the beak of some birds, notably the hornbill.

• “epithema”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “a cover, column capital, poultice”).

epithema n (genitive epithematis); third declension

1. poultice, medical lotion, epithem
2. (Medieval Latin) alternative form of epithymum

• Italian: pittima^[1]
• Leonese: bilma
• Old Spanish: bidma, bizma
  • Spanish: bizma

• “epithema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “epithema”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC