ointment

Meaning

Noun

• A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
• A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.

Related

Similar words

• salve
• unguent

Origin

• A later form (as if oint + -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement, from oigner, oindre, ongier, from Latin ungō ("I anoint"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ-.