poultice

English

Etymology

From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊltɪs/

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Noun

poultice (plural poultices)

1. A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.
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     The poultice relaxeth the pores.

2. A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.

Synonyms

• cataplasm

Derived terms

• bread poultice

 

Translations

soft, moist mass applied topically to a part of the body

• Bulgarian: компрес (bg) m (kompres), лапа (bg) f (lapa)
• Catalan: cataplasma (ca) m
• Danish: omslag n, grødomslag n (porridge-poultice)
• Dutch: papomslag n, cataplasma n
• Faroese: ^{(please verify)} greytarbak n
• Finnish: haude (fi)
• French: cataplasme (fr) m, emplâtre (fr) m
• Galician: emplasto m, cataplasma f, papuxas f pl
• German: Kataplasma n, Wickel (de) m, Umschlag (de) m, Packung (de) f
• Greek: κατάπλασμα (el) n (katáplasma)

  Ancient: κατάπλασμα n (katáplasma)

• Irish: ceirín m
• Italian: cataplasma (it) m
• Japanese: 罨法 (anpō)
• Latin: fōmentum n
• Maori: whakapiripiri, tākai
• Norman: poussot m (Jersey), vithicatouaithe m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: grøtomslag n
• Plautdietsch: Pleista n
• Portuguese: emplastro (pt), emplasto (pt), cataplasma (pt) m or f
• Russian: припа́рка (ru) f (pripárka)
• Spanish: cataplasma (es) f
• Swedish: grötomslag (sv) n, foment (sv), omslag (sv) n
• Tocharian B: tsatsāpar

Verb

poultice (third-person singular simple present poultices, present participle poulticing, simple past and past participle poulticed)

1. (transitive) To treat with a poultice.

Anagrams

• epulotic