spermaceti

From Latin sperma (“sperm”) +‎ Latin cētī (“of the whale”, genitive of cētus).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌspɜːməˈsiːti/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /spɚməˈsiːti/, /spɚməˈsɛti/, (obsolete, proscribed) /spɚməˈsɪti/[1]

spermaceti (uncountable)

1. A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics etc.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 77, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.

• spermaceti whale
• spermaceti organ

• spermaceti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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spermaceti m (plural spermacetis)

1. spermaceti

• “spermaceti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin sperma (“sperm”) +‎ Latin cētī (“of the whale”).

• IPA^(key): /sper.maˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɛti
• Hyphenation: sper‧ma‧cè‧ti

spermaceti m

1. spermaceti

• → Turkish: ispermeçet

spermaceti in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana