sebaceous
English
adj
Definitions
- of or relating to fat, sebum
- oozing fat
- (botany) tallowy, waxy
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sebaceus, sebum (tallow, suet, grease, sebum) derived from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (pour out, trickle, strain, drip, dribble, leak out, pour, leak) derived from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ (soap).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*saipǭ
Gloss
soap
Concept
Semantic Field
Clothing and grooming
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonsebaceous English
- pilosebaceous English
- sebaceousness English
- sebacic English
- sebum English
- saippua Finnish
- sapo Latin
- sapō Latin
- sebaceus Latin
- sebum Latin
- sābō Latin
- sāpō Latin
- sāpōne Latin
- sāpōnem Latin
- sēbum Latin
- sebaceo Italian
- savon French
- sébum French
- sebáceo Spanish, Castilian
- *seyb- Proto-Indo-European
- *seyp- Proto-Indo-European
- sebáceo Portuguese
- *saipǭ Proto-Germanic
- *sipōną Proto-Germanic
- såpa Swedish
- sāpe Old English
- seu Old French
- sèu Catalan, Valencian
- seifa Old High German
- *saipā gmw-pro
- סבון Hebrew (modern)
- *sēpa Old Dutch
- sêf Friulian
- *saipā Frankish
- *sēpe Old Frisian
- sivu Sicilian
- σαπούνιον gkm