malagma

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malagma. Doublet of amalgam.

Noun

malagma (plural malagmas or malagmata)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A cataplasm.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma). Doublet of amalgama.

Noun

malagma n (genitive malagmatis); third declension
malagma f (genitive malagmae); first declension

  1. emollient, poultice, cataplasm

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular plural
nominative malagma malagmata
genitive malagmatis malagmatum
dative malagmatī malagmatibus
accusative malagma malagmata
ablative malagmate malagmatibus
vocative malagma malagmata
First-declension noun.

References

  • malagma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "malagma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • malagma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.