elaterium

See also: Elaterium

English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

Noun

elaterium (uncountable)

Synonym of elaterin

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “elaterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /e.laˈteː.ri.um/, [ɛɫ̪äˈt̪eːriʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.laˈte.ri.um/, [eläˈt̪ɛːrium]

Noun

elatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension

(medicine) a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
- c. 43 CE – 46 CE, Scribonius Largus, Compositiones medicamentorum 70:
  LXX. Facit bene et hoc medicamentum: Fellis taurini p. 𐆖 II, elaterii, qui est sucus cucumeris silvatici, p. 𐆖 I, cachyros animati p. 𐆖 I; tritum melle admixto reponitur.
(New Latin) squirting cucumber
Synonyms: cucumis silvāticus, cucumis agrestis, notion

Declension

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References

“elaterium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
elaterium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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