[B-Greek] The Latin verb ungues

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 15 13:31:21 EDT 2010


cf. Love's Labor's Lost V,i, 70:

"I smell false Latin!  'Dunghill' for unguem."

 Mark L
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From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
To: Michael Baber <illuminatiaries at yahoo.com>; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 11:14:24 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The Latin verb ungues

It means "to smear with oil or grease", "to dress" (food with oil), "add oil."

 george
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From: Michael Baber <illuminatiaries at yahoo.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, October 15, 2010 9:59:35 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] The Latin verb ungues

In Exodus 30:27, the Vulgate translates the 
Hebrew as et ungues ex eo tabernaculum testimonii 
et arcam testament which is translated into English 
as, "And you shall anoint the tabernacle of the 
congregation and the ark of the testimony with it."
 
I've tried looking on Perseus to read up on the verb 
ungues, but to no avail. It says it is a noun having some
sort of association with a "nail." Now, I'm sure that
it does have that meaning in Latin, but my question is,
why does Perseus only list that one meaning and say 
nothing about the meaning of "anoint."
 
Is there another verb I should be searching for instead of 
"u-n-g-u-e-s"?
 
Thank you.
 
 


      
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