collyrium
English
Etymology
From Latin collȳrium, from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “poultice”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kəˈlɪɹɪəm/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm
Noun
collyrium (countable and uncountable, plural collyria or collyriums)
- A lotion or liquid wash used as a cleanser for the eyes; an eye-salve.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection ii:
- Democritus' collyrium is not so sovereign to the eyes as this is to the heart […]
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- Loosely, any product applied to or around the eyes; kohl.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
- […] there were rings of collyrium about her eyes.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 44
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κολλύριον (kollúrion, “eye salve”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kolˈlyː.ri.um/, [kɔlˈlʲyːriʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kolˈli.ri.um/, [kolˈliːrium]
Noun
collȳrium n (genitive collȳriī or collȳrī); second declension
- eye-salve
- pessary, suppository
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | collȳrium | collȳria |
Genitive | collȳriī collȳrī1 | collȳriōrum |
Dative | collȳriō | collȳriīs |
Accusative | collȳrium | collȳria |
Ablative | collȳriō | collȳriīs |
Vocative | collȳrium | collȳria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: col·liri
- French: collyre
- Galician: colirio
- Italian: collirio
- Portuguese: colírio
- Spanish: colirio
References
- “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “collyrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- collyrium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “collyrium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “collyrium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin