English
inunction
Inunction comes from Latin inunctus ‘smeared, anointed, rich’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃engʷ-‘anoint’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ongʷōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEungo‘anoint’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinungo‘anoint’next step skipped: Latin inunguō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinunctus‘smeared, anointed, rich’past participle of inungo
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinunctio
- Englishearliest quotation 1624inunction
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₃engʷ-‘anoint’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ongʷōreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEungo‘anoint’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinungo‘anoint’next step skipped: Latin inunguō
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinunctus‘smeared, anointed, rich’past participle of inungo
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEinunctio
- Englishearliest quotation 1624inunction
Earliest quotation: 1624, Democritus Junior pseudonym; Robert Burt, The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]: “Besides these fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed for the…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- ‘anoint’
through Latin inungo ‘anoint’
Today it means
noun The anointing or rubbing in of oil or balm.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- / inunction