Noun: unguent
| Singular | unguent |
| Plural | unguents |
Sample Sentences
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"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!" [1809–1812, William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque:]
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So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight. [a. 1864, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece:]
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Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land. [1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic:]
Nouns inflected like unguent
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”). See: Latin Nouns '
unguentum', German Nouns '
Anke'.