oleum

From Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

oleum (countable and uncountable, plural oleums)

1. (inorganic chemistry) A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.

• fuming sulfuric acid

• Olea

• pyrosulfuric acid

From Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈɔ.ɫe.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.le.um/, [ˈoː.le.um]

oleum n (genitive oleī); second declension

1. olive oil
2. the palaestra

Second declension.

• oleum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oleum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• oleum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    
• oleum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers