oint
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman oint, Middle French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɔɪnt/
Verb
oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)
- (now rare, poetic) To anoint.
- Dryden
- They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 25, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man.
- Dryden
Catalan
Etymology
Present participle of oir, possibly corresponding to Latin audiēns, audientem.
French
Etymology
From Middle French oint, from Old French oint, from Latin unctus.
Old French
Noun
oint m (oblique plural oinz or ointz, nominative singular oinz or ointz, nominative plural oint)
Related terms
- ointure
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