different between unguent vs balsam

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

English

Alternative forms

• balsem, balsum, balsome

Etymology

From Middle English *balsam, balsme, from Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew ????? (“spice, perfume”)). Doublet of balm.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bôl?s?m, IPA^(key): /?b??ls?m/

Noun

balsam (countable and uncountable, plural balsams)

1. (chiefly Britain) A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.
2. (chiefly Britain) A plant or tree yielding such substance.
3. (chiefly Britain) A soothing ointment.
4. (chiefly Britain, figuratively) Something soothing.

   Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows

5. A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.
6. The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera.
7. A balsam fir Abies balsamea.
8. Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir.

Synonyms

• (sweet-smelling oil): balm
• (plant or tree): balm
• (soothing ointment): balm
• (something soothing): balm
• (flowering plant of the genus Impatiens): jewelweed, impatiens, touch-me-not

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Impatiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

balsam (third-person singular simple present balsams, present participle balsaming, simple past and past participle balsamed)

1. (transitive) To treat or anoint with balsam.

Anagrams

• lambas, sambal

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish balsam(m), balsaim(e), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon).

Noun

balsam m (genitive singular balsaim)

1. (medicine) balsam, balm
2. balsam (plant)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "balsam" 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) , “balsam(m), balsaim(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Etymology

From Old Polish balsam or balszam, from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon, “balsam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bal.sam/

Noun

balsam m inan

1. (technical) balsam (“a sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants”)
2. (cosmetics, medicine, pharmacology) lotion (“a low-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to skin”)
3. (historical) a substance used in thanatopraxy (“embalming of corpses”), specifically any substance used for this practice in Ancient Egypt.
4. (figuratively) balsam (“something soothing”)

Declension

Synonyms

• (oil or resin): ?ywica
• (lotion): krem, mleczko, tonik
• (something soothing): otucha, ukojenie

Related terms

• balsamowanie
• balsamista
• balsamowiec
• balsamowa?
• balsamiczny
• balsamowy
• balsamowaty
• balsamicznie

See also

• natron
• mumifikacja

Further reading

• balsam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin balsamum. Appears since 17th century. Probably entered Romanian through multiple routes, with the most common form from Italian balsamo, or through use in old medicinal practice. A now archaic variant form valsam derived from Greek ??????? (válsamo). Cf. also German Balsam.

Noun

balsam n (plural balsamuri)

1. balsam (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. unction, balm, salve, unguent

Derived terms

• b?ls?ma

References