castoreum
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).
Noun edit
castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums)
- The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers.
- 1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 17, page 299:
- One of the substances tried was castoreum. […] If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.
- 1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, “Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?”, in Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson, editors, Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284:
- While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.
- (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
castor sac exudate
|
hat — see castor
See also edit
- Castoreum (genus of Mesophelliaceae)
References edit
- Heusinger, Carl Friedrich (1852) Meletemata quaedam de antiquitatibus castorei et moschi (in Latin), Marburg: Elwert, 31 pp.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch castorium, from Latin castoreum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
castoreum n (uncountable)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käs̠ˈt̪ɔreʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käsˈt̪ɔːreum]
Noun edit
castoreum n (genitive castoreī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | castoreum | castorea |
Genitive | castoreī | castoreōrum |
Dative | castoreō | castoreīs |
Accusative | castoreum | castorea |
Ablative | castoreō | castoreīs |
Vocative | castoreum | castorea |
References edit
- castoreum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “castoreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press