[B-Greek] The Latin verb ungues
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Fri Oct 15 13:36:24 EDT 2010
The Latin verb Michael asked for is UNGUO, also UNGO.
Al
On Oct 15, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> cf. Love's Labor's Lost V,i, 70:
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> "I smell false Latin! 'Dunghill' for unguem."
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> 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
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> It means "to smear with oil or grease", "to dress" (food with oil),
> "add oil."
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> 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
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> 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."
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> 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."
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> Is there another verb I should be searching for instead of
> "u-n-g-u-e-s"?
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> Thank you.
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