linctus

From Latin linctus, from lingō (“I lick (up)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪŋk.təs/

linctus (plural linctuses)

1. (medicine) Any syrupy medication; especially a remedy for coughs.

   Synonyms: lambative, lohoch

Perfect passive participle of lingō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliːnk.tus/, [ˈlʲiːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlink.tus/, [ˈliŋkt̪us]

līnctus (feminine līncta, neuter līnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. licked

First/second-declension adjective.

• Aromanian: alimtu

līnctus m (genitive līnctūs); fourth declension

1. a licking; the act of licking

Fourth-declension noun.

• English: linctus

• “linctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• linctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.