different between oil vs embrocation

English

Alternative forms

• oyl (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: oil, IPA^(key): /??l/, [???]
• Homophone: Oi'll
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English oyle, oile (“olive oil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman olie, from Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (élaion, “olive oil”), from ????? (elaía, “olive”). More at olive. Supplanted Middle English ele (“oil”), from Old English ele (“oil”), also from Latin.

Noun

oil (countable and uncountable, plural oils)

1. Liquid fat.
2. Petroleum-based liquid used as fuel or lubricant.
3. (countable) An oil painting.
4. (painting) Oil paint.

5. (attributive) Containing oil, conveying oil; intended for or capable of containing oil.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English oilen, oylen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

oil (third-person singular simple present oils, present participle oiling, simple past and past participle oiled)

1. (transitive) To lubricate with oil.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23:

     Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
2. (transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.

Derived terms

• unoil

Translations

Anagrams

• ILO, LOI, Loi, Oli

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?/, /?l?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish ail, oil (“disgrace, reproach; act of reproaching; blemish, defect”).

Noun

oil f (genitive singular oile)

1. (literary) disgrace, reproach; act of reproaching
2. (literary) blemish, defect

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish ailid, oilid (“nourishes, rears, fosters”) (compare altram (“fosterage”), from a verbal noun of ailid).

Verb

oil (present analytic oileann, future analytic oilfidh, verbal noun oiliúint, past participle oilte)

1. (transitive) nourish, rear, foster

   Proverb:

2. (transitive) train, educate

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

oil f (genitive singular oileach, nominative plural oileacha)

1. Alternative form of ail (“stone, rock”)

Declension

Etymology 4

Verb

oil (present analytic oileann, future analytic oilfidh, verbal noun oiliúint, past participle oilte)

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of oir (“suit, fit, become”)

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• "oil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 ail (‘disgrace, reproach’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 ailid (‘nourish, foster’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Noun

oil

1. Alternative form of oyle

Old French

Etymology 1

From o +? il, possibly from:

• Latin hoc ille (“this [is what] he [said]”), akin to o je, o tu, o nos, o vos, all ‘this’ constructed with other personal pronouns;
• hoc illud (“this is it, lit. this that”).

In any case, an elliptical phrase of response, by semantic erosion/grammaticalization possibly calqued on Gaulish: compare Portuguese and Spanish isso and eso (“yes, yeah”, literally “this”), Celtic languages such as Old Irish tó (“yes”), Welsh do (“indeed”), from *tod (“this, that”).

Compare with Old French o, ou, oc, ec, euc, uoc, Old Occitan oc (Occitan òc), all from the simple Latin hoc.

Alternative forms

• oïl (almost always used by scholars to disambiguate with other meanings)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??il/

Adverb

oil

1. yes

Interjection

oil

1. yes
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     "Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.
     Seneschaus, savez vos an rien?

     Yes, I remember it well

     Seneschal, do you know anything about it?

Descendants

• French: oui
  • ? English: oui
  • Maori: W?w? (“France”)
• Norman: oui (Guernsey)

References

Etymology 2

See ueil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

oil m (oblique plural ouz or oilz, nominative singular ouz or oilz, nominative plural oil)

1. Alternative form of ueil

Simeulue

Noun

oil

1. water
2. sap

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

embrocation (countable and uncountable, plural embrocations)

1. (obsolete) The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
   • 1634, Philemon Holland (translator), The Historie of the World: commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus, London, Book 26, Chapter 11, p. 260,^[1]

     The best cure of those who be in a frensie, is by sleepe: and that may be procured easily by the juice of Peucedanum & vineger together infused vpon the head by way of imbrocation, or by rubbing the same with it:

   • 1684, uncredited translator, Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences by Samuel Du Clos, London: Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, “Advertisements and Corollaries,” p. 121,^[2]

     The Observations of the Effects of these Waters on Persons who use them in Drinking, Bathing, Pumping, Washing, Embrocation, &c. are reserv’d for the Physicians, whose Duty it is to know the Particular Constitutions of those Persons, and the State of their Health Declining or Improving.

2. The liquid or lotion with which an affected part is rubbed.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 12,^[3]

     “Oh! my dear sir, her throat is so much better that I have hardly any uneasiness about it. Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield’s, which we have been applying at times ever since August.”

   • 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, New York: Berkley, Chapter 25,

     You are hereby notified that my embrocations burn and tingle as if distilled from liquid flame. My medicines taste vilely, of cimiter, dogbane and gall: the body quickly returns to robust health so that it need assimilate no more of my foul concoctions! That is the secret of my success.

   • 2010, “Scrum deal: Warm up for the World Cup with a tour of New Zealand,” Daily Mail, 6 September, 2010,^[4]

     Here you can also stick your nose in a box and experience what a rugby changing room smells like—embrocation, I think they mean.

Related terms

• embrocate

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

embrocation f (plural embrocations)

1. embrocation

Further reading

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