ungüento

• unguento (reintegrationist)
• ingüento

From Old Galician-Portuguese enguento (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”).

• IPA^(key): [uŋˈɡwɛntʊ]

ungüento m (plural ungüentos)

1. ointment
   • c. 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 131:

     Para esto ual a çebolla assada pisada con miucas da terra et con as llesmez et con manteyga rretuda desuu, todo amasado et coyto et meixudo todo ataa que se tome espeso como jngento

     for this is valid roasted onion crushed with earthworms and with slugs and melted butter, all together, mixed and cooked and stirred till it becomes thick as an ointment

• unto
• unxir

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “unguento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nguento”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ungüento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ungüento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ungüento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “ungüento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

ungüento m (plural ungüentos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1990 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of unguento; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”).

• IPA^(key): /unˈɡwento/ [ũŋˈɡwẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: un‧güen‧to

ungüento m (plural ungüentos)

1. unguent
2. ointment, salve

   Synonym: pomada

• “ungüento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28