Latin

Alternative forms

• ēlectārium

Noun

ēlectuārium n ‎(genitive ēlectuāriī or ēlectuārī); second declension

1. An electuary: a medicine mixed with honey or other sweetener to ease oral consumption.
2. (Medieval Latin) Prescription medicine generally.
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Uncia vero in electuariis consistit ex viginti denariis

     In truth, the ounce in medicines is formed from twenty pennyweight.

Declension

Second declension.

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

Descendants

• English: electuary

See also

• apothecary's Latin

References

• electuarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ELECTUARIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “electuarium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.