unctus

Perfect passive participle of ungō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈuːnk.tus/, [ˈuːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈunk.tus/, [ˈuŋkt̪us]

ūnctus (feminine ūncta, neuter ūnctum, comparative unctior); first/second-declension participle

1. anointed
2. of the bottoms or hulls of boats or ships: having been coated, prepared, or made seaworthy or watertight, using pitch, pine-tar, or tar; having been tarred
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.397–398:

     Tum vērō Teucrī incumbunt, et lītore celsās
     dēdūcunt tōtō nāvēs: Natat ūncta carīnā.

     Truly then [did] the Trojans set to work, and draw down their tall ships all along the shore: [Each] hull, [freshly] tarred, is afloat [once more].

3. greasy, oily

• ūnctum

• Aromanian: umtu
• Friulian: ont
• Galician: unto
• Italian: unto
• Old French: oint
  • Middle French: oint
    • French: oint
• Portuguese: unto

• “unctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “unctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• unctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.