elaterium

• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəm

elaterium (uncountable)

1. Synonym of elaterin.

• “elaterium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛ.ɫaˈteː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.laˈtɛː.ri.um]

elatērium n (genitive elatēriī or elatērī); second declension

1. (medicine) a medicine prepared from the juice of the squirting cucumber
   • c. 43 CE – 46 CE, Scribonius Largus, Compositiones medicamentorum 70:^[1]

     LXX. Facit bene et hoc medicamentum: Fellis taurini p. 𐆖 II, elaterii, qui est sucus cucumeris silvatici, p. 𐆖 I, cachyros animati p. 𐆖 I; tritum melle admixto reponitur.

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2. (New Latin) squirting cucumber

   Synonyms: cucumis silvāticus, cucumis agrestis, notion

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → Translingual: Elaterium

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