collyrium
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin collȳrium, from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “poultice”). Doublet of koulouri.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
collyrium (countable and uncountable, plural collyria or collyriums)
- A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
- Democritus' collyrium is not so sovereign to the eyes as this is to the heart […]
- Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
- […] there were rings of collyrium about her eyes.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “eye salve”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈlyː.ri.um/, [kɔlˈlʲyːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kolˈli.ri.um/, [kolˈliːrium]
Noun edit
collȳrium n (genitive collȳriī or collȳrī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | collȳrium | collȳria |
| Genitive | collȳriī collȳrī1 |
collȳriōrum |
| Dative | collȳriō | collȳriīs |
| Accusative | collȳrium | collȳria |
| Ablative | collȳriō | collȳriīs |
| Vocative | collȳrium | collȳria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Catalan: col·liri
- French: collyre
- Galician: colirio
- Italian: collirio
- Portuguese: colírio
- Spanish: colirio
References edit
- “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “collyrium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “collyrium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin