condum

English

Noun

condum (plural condums)

1. Obsolete spelling of condom.
   • 1867, Jefferson B. Fancher, Medical, Matrimonial, and Scientific Expositor, page 434:

     These are an improvement on the ordinary French male safe, condum, sheath, or envelope.

   • 1875, “Chronic Inflammation of the Prostate Gland”, in The Eclectic medical journal of Pennsylvania, volume 13, numbers 11-12, page 239:

     […] from the wearing of condums during sexual congress; sedentary habits; reading improper literature.

   • 1880, The Epitome: A Monthly Retrospect of American Practical Medicine and Surgery:

     I then thought of using an ordinary condum in the same manner as we use the rubber bag in uterine hemorrhage.

Latin

Noun

condum

1. accusative singular of condus

References

• condum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)