Latin

Noun

fōmentum n ‎(genitive fōmentī); second declension

1. (medicine, chiefly in the plural) A warm application, lotion, compress or poultice, fomentation.
2. (by extension) Kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder.
3. (figuratively) A remedy, lenitive, mitigation, alleviation.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (kindling-wood): fōmes

Derived terms

• fōmentō

Related terms

• fōmentātiō
• fōmes
• foveō

Descendants

• Catalan: foment
• English: foment
• French: fomenter
• Italian: fomento
• Portuguese: fomento
• Spanish: fomento

References

• fomentum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fomentum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FOMENTUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fomentum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.