liniment
/ˈlɪnəmənt/noun, verb
liniment is a noun meaning “A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-N-I-M-E-N-T, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of liniment is liniments.
What does liniment mean?
noun
- 1
A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis.
verb
- 1
To apply liniment to.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce liniment?
- /ˈlɪnəmənt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-liniment.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of liniment
- liniments plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- linimenting participle, present
- linimented participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is liniment?
Liniment appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Liniment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense topical medical preparation:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does liniment come from?
From Middle English lynyment (“something used for smearing or anointing”), a learned borrowing from Late Latin linīmentum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).