unctio

Latin

Etymology

From ungō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

ūnctiō f (genitive ūnctiōnis); third declension

1. anointing
2. ointment, unguent

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ūnctiō	ūnctiōnēs
Genitive	ūnctiōnis	ūnctiōnum
Dative	ūnctiōnī	ūnctiōnibus
Accusative	ūnctiōnem	ūnctiōnēs
Ablative	ūnctiōne	ūnctiōnibus
Vocative	ūnctiō	ūnctiōnēs

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: hunçon, onçon
  • Portuguese: unção
• → Catalan: unció
• → French: onction
• → Italian: unzione
• → Spanish: unción

References

• “unctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “unctio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• unctio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.