oint
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman oint or Old French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɔɪnt/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Verb
oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)
- (now rare, poetic) To anoint.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 25, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man.
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Catalan
Etymology
Present participle of oir, possibly corresponding to Latin audiēns, audientem.
French
Etymology
From Middle French oint, from Old French oint, from Latin unctus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛ̃/
Participle
oint (feminine ointe, masculine plural oints, feminine plural ointes)
- past participle of oindre
Noun
oint m (plural oints, feminine ointe)
- One who has been anointed
- l'oint du seigneur
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Further reading
- “oint”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
oint m (oblique plural oinz or ointz, nominative singular oinz or ointz, nominative plural oint)
Related terms
- ointure
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