elaterium
See also: Elaterium
English
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Noun
editelaterium (uncountable)
- Synonym of elaterin
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “elaterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /e.laˈteː.ri.um/, [ɛɫ̪äˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.laˈte.ri.um/, [eläˈt̪ɛːrium]
Noun
editelatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension
- (medicine) a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
- c. 43 CE – 46 CE, Scribonius Largus, Compositiones medicamentorum 70:[1]
- LXX. Facit bene et hoc medicamentum: Fellis taurini p. 𐆖 II, elaterii, qui est sucus cucumeris silvatici, p. 𐆖 I, cachyros animati p. 𐆖 I; tritum melle admixto reponitur.
- (New Latin) squirting cucumber
- Synonyms: cucumis silvāticus, cucumis agrestis, notion
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | elatērium | elatēria |
Genitive | elatēriī elatērī1 |
elatēriōrum |
Dative | elatēriō | elatēriīs |
Accusative | elatērium | elatēria |
Ablative | elatēriō | elatēriīs |
Vocative | elatērium | elatēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
edit- “elaterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- elaterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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