See also: Elaterium

English

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Noun

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elaterium (uncountable)

  1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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elatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension

  1. (medicine) a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
  2. (New Latin) squirting cucumber
    Synonyms: cucumis silvāticus, cucumis agrestis, notion

Declension

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Second-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

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  • 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.