album graecumn.

Brit.

/ˈalbəm ˈɡrʌɪkəm/,

/ˈalbəm ˈɡriːkəm/,

/ˈalbəm ˈɡrɛkəm/, U.S.

/ˈælbəm ˈɡraɪkəm/,

/ˈælbəm ˈɡrikəm/,

/ˈælbəm ˈɡrɛkəm/

Forms: 1500s– album grecum, 1600s– album graecum.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin album Graecum.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin album Graecum (1545 or earlier) < album dry white excrement of a dog, use as noun (short for stercus album white excrement (15th cent.)) of neuter of classical Latin albus white (see album n.²) + classical Latin Graecum , neuter of Graecus Greek adj.The designation ‘Greek’ may be due to the fact that the substance was mentioned in Greek medical writers such as Galen and Paulus Aegineta.

Now historical.

The dry white excrement of a dog, hyena, or other bone-eating carnivore, esp. when used as an ingredient in medicinal preparations or in dyeing and tanning.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > animal excrement or urine

album graecum1584

all-flower water?1705

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung > when it has dried and whitened

album graecum1584

1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 13^v Applie outwardes: honie of violets, and oyle of Uiolettes, tempered with Nitre.., and Album grecum, or rather excrementum pueri infantis.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 189 The dung of dogges (called by the Apothecaryes Album Græcum) because the white is best,..is verye profitable..against inflamations in the brests of Women.

1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 75 Incorparate yee vessells, base absurd, With Album Græcum, and the Divells turd.

1739 J. K'Eogh Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica 33 The Dung, or Album Græcum taken inwardly is aperitive, and abstersive, therefore useful to cure a Dysentery and Cholic.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. iii. ii. 128 Sheep and cow dung, and album grecum, added to the mordant..contributed somewhat, but not much, to strengthen the colour.

1804 R. Southey Let. 5 Mar. (1965) I. 355 I have called him [sc. Malthus] a dog by implication—having mentioned his album græcum.

1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times viii. 266 There are several layers—one over the other—of album graecum, that is to say, the excrement of hyænas. Each of these indicates..a separate period of occupation.

1937 Ann. Med. Hist. 9 62/2 Too many of them had perhaps swallowed the crushed crabs' eyes of Gascoigne's powder or had been rubbed with Album Graecum.

1988 Appl. Geochem. 3 368/1 Goldschmidt felt it was, perhaps, undignified to end his fundamental scientific work with a note on album Graecum (dog feces), a prosaic and unattractive product, however interesting in its chemistry, in which insoluble phosphates are transformed into white and soluble ones.

2004 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 37 59 According to a later letter to Grenville, the chemist and physicist William Wollaston (1766–1828) had confirmed Buckland's theory that the album graecum found in the cave was the fossilized dung of the hyenas.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	album graecum
释义	album graecumn. Brit. /ˈalbəm ˈɡrʌɪkəm/, /ˈalbəm ˈɡriːkəm/, /ˈalbəm ˈɡrɛkəm/, U.S. /ˈælbəm ˈɡraɪkəm/, /ˈælbəm ˈɡrikəm/, /ˈælbəm ˈɡrɛkəm/ Forms: 1500s– album grecum, 1600s– album graecum. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin album Graecum. Etymology: < post-classical Latin album Graecum (1545 or earlier) < album dry white excrement of a dog, use as noun (short for stercus album white excrement (15th cent.)) of neuter of classical Latin albus white (see album n.²) + classical Latin Graecum , neuter of Graecus Greek adj.The designation ‘Greek’ may be due to the fact that the substance was mentioned in Greek medical writers such as Galen and Paulus Aegineta. Now historical. The dry white excrement of a dog, hyena, or other bone-eating carnivore, esp. when used as an ingredient in medicinal preparations or in dyeing and tanning. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > animal excrement or urine album graecum1584 all-flower water?1705 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung > when it has dried and whitened album graecum1584 1584 T. Chaloner Shorte Disc. Nitre f. 13^v Applie outwardes: honie of violets, and oyle of Uiolettes, tempered with Nitre.., and Album grecum, or rather excrementum pueri infantis. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 189 The dung of dogges (called by the Apothecaryes Album Græcum) because the white is best,..is verye profitable..against inflamations in the brests of Women. 1654 M. Stevenson Occasions Off-spring 75 Incorparate yee vessells, base absurd, With Album Græcum, and the Divells turd. 1739 J. K'Eogh Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica 33 The Dung, or Album Græcum taken inwardly is aperitive, and abstersive, therefore useful to cure a Dysentery and Cholic. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing II. iii. ii. 128 Sheep and cow dung, and album grecum, added to the mordant..contributed somewhat, but not much, to strengthen the colour. 1804 R. Southey Let. 5 Mar. (1965) I. 355 I have called him [sc. Malthus] a dog by implication—having mentioned his album græcum. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times viii. 266 There are several layers—one over the other—of album graecum, that is to say, the excrement of hyænas. Each of these indicates..a separate period of occupation. 1937 Ann. Med. Hist. 9 62/2 Too many of them had perhaps swallowed the crushed crabs' eyes of Gascoigne's powder or had been rubbed with Album Graecum. 1988 Appl. Geochem. 3 368/1 Goldschmidt felt it was, perhaps, undignified to end his fundamental scientific work with a note on album Graecum (dog feces), a prosaic and unattractive product, however interesting in its chemistry, in which insoluble phosphates are transformed into white and soluble ones. 2004 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 37 59 According to a later letter to Grenville, the chemist and physicist William Wollaston (1766–1828) had confirmed Buckland's theory that the album graecum found in the cave was the fossilized dung of the hyenas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1584
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