uncto

Latin

Etymology 1

From unctus +‎ . Attested in late Latin-Greek glosses[1] such as one in the Hermeneumata Leidensia,[2] a work attributed to Dositheus.

Verb

unctō (present infinitive unctāre, perfect active unctāvī, supine unctātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)?

  1. to grease, rub with oil
Conjugation
Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: >? untare
    • Sicilian: untari
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: ontar, vontar
    • Piedmontese: ontà, ondar
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Northern:
      • Franco-Provençal: ountar, ouintar
    • Southern:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983) “untar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume V (Ri–X), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 715
  2. ^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus (1892) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana. Accedunt hermeneumata medicobotanica vetustiora[1], volume III, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 70:λελειπομενον unctatum

Etymology 2

Participle

ūnctō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ūnctus

Portuguese

Verb

uncto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of unctar