ungüento
Galician
Alternative forms
- ingüento
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese enguento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [uŋˈɡwɛntʊ]
Noun
ungüento m (plural ungüentos)
- ointment
- c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:
- Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se tome espeso como jngento
- for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, mixed and cooked and stirred till it becomes thick as an ointment
References
- “unguento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “nguento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ungüento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ungüento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ungüento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Noun
ungüento m (plural ungüentos)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1990/Portugal 1945) of unguento.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /unˈɡwento/ [ũŋˈɡwẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: un‧güen‧to
Further reading
- “ungüento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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