different between lard vs unguent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French lard (“bacon”), from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Noun

lard (countable and uncountable, plural lards)

1. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
2. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
3. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
   • 2020, Sophie Ranald, Thank You, Next: A perfect, uplifting and funny romantic comedy

     My wonderful partner is fond of pointing out that he and I have done the Covid crisis on easy mode: we have no children, no caring responsibilities, […] we have a fabulous community of people at our local fitness studio to keep the lockdown lard at bay and the cats love joining us for afternoon naps.

Translations

Verb

lard (third-person singular simple present lards, present participle larding, simple past and past participle larded)

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. To smear with fat or lard.
   • 1740, William Somervile, Hobbinol

     In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat / Of slaughtered brutes.

3. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
4. To fatten; to enrich.

   • [The oak] with his nuts larded many swine.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
6. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

     Let no alien Sedley interpose / To lard with wit thy hungry Epsom prose.

Derived terms

• lardaceous
• lardass
• lardball
• lardboy
• lardbucket
• lardbutt
• enlard
• larding needle
• lardlike
• lardless
• lardoon
• lardy
• leaf lard
• overlard
• tub of lard
• unlarded

Translations

Anagrams

• ARLD, LDAR, LRAD, darl

French

Etymology

From Old French lard, from Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?/

Noun

lard m (plural lards)

1. bacon
2. lard

Further reading

• “lard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m (oblique plural larz or lartz, nominative singular larz or lartz, nominative plural lard)

1. cut of meat from a pig
2. lard (fatty substance)

Descendants

• ? English: lard
• French: lard

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard n (plural larduri)

1. (regional) bacon
2. (regional) pig-fat

Declension

Synonyms

• sl?nin?

Derived terms

• l?rdos
• l?rdar

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin lardum, laridum (“bacon fat”).

Noun

lard m

1. (Puter) bacon

Synonyms

• charnpüerch
• panzetta

English

Alternative forms

• onguent

Etymology

From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from ungu? (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng?- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????w?nt/, (nonstandard) /?nd??(u)?nt/

Noun

unguent (plural unguents)

1. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
   • 1809-1812 — William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

     "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!"

   • 1853 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece

     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.

   • 1890 — Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic

     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.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• medicine
• ointment

Latin

Verb

unguent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of ungu?

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin unguentum

Noun

unguent n (plural unguente)

1. ointment

Declension