castoreum

castoreum

English

Alternative forms

• castorium

Etymology

From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).

Noun

castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums)

1. The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers.
   • 1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum, London Medical Gazette, Volume 17, page 299,

     One of the substances tried was castoreum. […] If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.

   • 1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?, Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson (editors), Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284,

     While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.

   • 2004, Christian V. Stevens, Roland Verhé, Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications, page 257,

     Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the natural fragrant^[sic].

2. (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.

Synonyms

• (exudate): castor
• (hat): beaver, castor

Translations

castor sac exudate

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: جُنْدُبَادَسْتَر‎ m (jundubādastar), خُصْيْة الْبَحْر‎ f (ḵuṣya al-baḥr) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܩܣܛܘܪܝܘܢ‎ m (/qasṭōryōn/) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: касто́реум m (kastóreum) Dutch: bevergeil (nl) n, castoreum n Finnish: majavanhausta, hauste French: castoréum (fr) m German: Bibergeil (de) n, Castoreum (de) n Greek: Ancient Greek: καστόρειον n (kastóreion), καστόριον n (kastórion) Modern Greek: please add this translation if you can Italian: castoreo m Kabardian: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: castoreum n Macedonian: кастореум m (kastoreum) Persian: گندبیدستر‎ (gonde-bidastar) Polish: strój bobrowy (pl) m, kastoreum (pl) m Portuguese: castóreo m Russian: бобро́вая струя́ f (bobróvaja strujá), касто́реум (ru) m (kastóreum) Serbo-Croatian: kastoreum m Slovene: kastoréum m Swedish: bävergäll (sv) c Spanish: castóreo m Tatar: кондыз агынтысы (qondız ağıntısı) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: جند بیدستر‎ (cünd-i bidester) Ukrainian: бобро́ва струя́ f (bobróva strujá), касто́реум m (kastóreum)

hat — see castor

See also

• Castoreum (genus of Mesophelliaceae)

References

• Heusinger, Carl Friedrich (1852) Meletemata quaedam de antiquitatibus castorei et moschi (in Latin), Marburg: Elwert, 31 pp.

Anagrams

• outscream

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch castorium, from Latin castoreum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑs.toːˈreː.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: cas‧to‧re‧um

Noun

castoreum n (uncountable)

1. castoreum (exudate from castor sacs)

   Synonym: bevergeil

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Latin

Etymology

castor +‎ -eum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käs̠ˈt̪ɔreʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käsˈt̪ɔːreum]

Noun

castoreum n (genitive castoreī); second declension

1. castoreum, castor sac exudate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	castoreum	castorea
Genitive	castoreī	castoreōrum
Dative	castoreō	castoreīs
Accusative	castoreum	castorea
Ablative	castoreō	castoreīs
Vocative	castoreum	castorea

References

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