English → Latin
“fomentation” in Latin
foveōto warm, keep warm; to nurture, cherish, foster; to foment, bathefōmentumA warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation.; Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder.; A remedy, lenitive, mmalagmaemollient, poultice, cataplasmfōmentātiōfomentation, treatment with a (hot) poultice
The English word fomentation itself goes back to Latin foveō, through fōmentātiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
fomentation
As action, fotus, us (Plin.) [fomentatio, Ulp.].
As application, fomentum (a warming application): malagma, atis (a softening application). To apply a formentation, fomentum corpori admovere (Cels.): warm formentations, fomenta calida.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for fomentation?
- The usual Latin words for “fomentation” are foveō, fōmentum, malagma; also fōmentātiō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.