electuarium

Borrowed from Latin ēlectuārium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.lɛk.tyˈaː.ri.ʏm/, /eːˌlɛk.tyˈaː.ri.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: elec‧tu‧a‧ri‧um

electuarium n (plural electuaria)

1. electuary (medicine mixed with honey or some kind of syrup)

   Synonym: likkepot

• ēlectārium

Probably a corruption of Ancient Greek ἐκλεικτόν (ekleiktón, “medicine that melts in the mouth, lozenge, jujube”), from ἐκλείχω (ekleíkhō, “to lick up”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eː.lek.tuˈaː.ri.um/, [eː.ɫɛk.tʊˈaː.ri.ũ]

ēlectuārium n (genitive ēlectuāriī or ēlectuārī); second declension

1. An electuary: a medicine mixed with honey or other sweetener to ease oral consumption.
2. (Medieval Latin) Prescription medicine generally.
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Uncia vero in electuariis consistit ex viginti denariis

     In truth, the ounce in medicines is formed from twenty pennyweight.

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• English: electuary

• apothecary's Latin

• electuarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• electuarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• electuarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette