• OIL

1. s. oleum (general term; but PROP., olive oil): olivum, oleum olivarum (olive oil): pure, sweet, clear oil, oleum purum (Cato); mundum (Pall.); liquidum, optimum, non insuavis odoris, egregii saporis (Col.): old, bad, rancid oil, oleum vetus (Col.); corruptum (Caes.); sordidum (Pall.): to press oil, oleum facere: to add oil to the flame, oleum addere camino (Hor., Sat., 2, 3, 321): to supply a lamp with oil, oleum lumini instillare: of or belonging to oil, olearius: dregs of oil, faeces (plur.); amurca (impurities in pressing): an oil painting, imago oleatis pigmentis picta; pictura pigmentis oleatis facta: an oil cask, dolium olearium: the smell of oil, odor olei; odor oleaceus (like oil): the taste of oil, sapor olei; sapor oleaceus (like oil).

2. v. oleo unguere (Hor., Sat.); oleo perfundere aliquid (Verg.).