noun
ŏlīvum
Meaning
- Oil
ŏlīvum or ŏlīvom, i, n. id..
I. Lit.
A. Oil (poet. and in post-class. prose for oleum):
eme die caecā hercle olivum, id vendito oculatā die, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 67; id. As. 2, 4, 26; id. Ps. 1, 2, 76; Lucr. 2, 392; id. 6, 1073: inolens, id. 2, 850: pingue, Verg. E. 5, 68; Ov. M. 10, 176: perfundere pisces olivo, Hor. S. 2, 4, 50: si ex olivis meis olivum feceris, Gai. Inst. 2, 79.—B. Trop., the palœstra (from the use of oil to anoint wrestlers):
cur olivum vitat? Hor. C. 1, 8, 8; cf. oleum.—In English words that came into English from ŏlīvum
- olivaryolīvārius