castoreum

English

Alternative forms

• castorium

Etymology

From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).

Noun

castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums)

1. The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers.
   • 1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 17, page 299:

     One of the substances tried was castoreum. […] If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.

   • 1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, “Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?”, in Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson, editors, Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284:

     While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.

   • 2004, Christian V. Stevens, Roland Verhé, Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications, page 257:

     Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the natural fragrant^[sic].

2. (archaic) A hat made from beaver fur.

Synonyms

• (exudate): castor
• (hat): beaver, castor

Translations

castor sac exudate

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: جُنْدُبَادَسْتَر m (jundubādastar), خُصْيْة الْبَحْر f (ḵuṣya al-baḥr)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܣܛܘܪܝܘܢ m (/⁠qasṭōryōn⁠/)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: касто́реум m (kastóreum)
• Dutch: bevergeil (nl) n, castoreum n
• Finnish: majavanhausta, hauste
• French: castoréum (fr) m
• German: Bibergeil (de) n, Castoreum (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: καστόρειον n (kastóreion), καστόριον n (kastórion)

  Modern Greek: please add this translation if you can

• Italian: castoreo m
• Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: castoreum n
• Macedonian: кастореум m (kastoreum)
• Persian: گندبیدستر (gonde-bidastar)
• Polish: strój bobrowy (pl) m, kastoreum (pl) m
• Portuguese: castóreo m
• Russian: бобро́вая струя́ f (bobróvaja strujá), касто́реум (ru) m (kastóreum)
• Serbo-Croatian: kastoreum m
• Slovene: kastoréum m
• Spanish: castóreo m
• Swedish: bävergäll (sv) c
• Tatar: кондыз агынтысы (qondız ağıntısı)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: جند بیدستر (cünd-i bidester)

• Ukrainian: бобро́ва струя́ f (bobróva strujá), касто́реум m (kastóreum)

hat — see castor

See also

• Castoreum (genus of Mesophelliaceae)

References

• Heusinger, Carl Friedrich (1852) Meletemata quaedam de antiquitatibus castorei et moschi (in Latin), Marburg: Elwert, 31 pp.

Anagrams

• outscream

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch castorium, from Latin castoreum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑs.toːˈreː.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: cas‧to‧re‧um

Noun

castoreum n (uncountable)

1. castoreum (exudate from castor sacs)

   Synonym: bevergeil

Latin

Etymology

castor +‎ -eum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käs̠ˈt̪ɔreʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kasˈto.re.um/, [käsˈt̪ɔːreum]

Noun

castoreum n (genitive castoreī); second declension

1. castoreum, castor sac exudate

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	castoreum	castorea
Genitive	castoreī	castoreōrum
Dative	castoreō	castoreīs
Accusative	castoreum	castorea
Ablative	castoreō	castoreīs
Vocative	castoreum	castorea

References

• castoreum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “castoreum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press