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7 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
originBorrowed from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0