English → Latin
“poultice” in Latin
fōmentumA warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation.; Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder.; A remedy, lenitive, mcataplasmapoultice, plastermalagmaemollient, poultice, cataplasm
The English word poultice itself goes back to Latin puls, through pultes.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
poultice s.
fomentum, cataplasma, -atis, neuter (Cels., Plin.); malagma, -atis (Cels., for mollifying). Warm poultices, cataplasmata, fomenta calida: to apply warm poultices, uti cataplasmatibus calefacientibus.
poultice v.
fomentum alicui rei admovere; fomentum, cataplasma imponere aegro membro (Cels.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for poultice?
- The usual Latin words for “poultice” are fōmentum, cataplasma, malagma. 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.