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liniment

French, noun\li.ni.mɑ̃\

liniment is a French masculine noun meaning “liniment” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Médicament fait d’huile et d’autres substances, qui s’emploie en frictions ou en applications pour adoucir et…”.

What does liniment mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineliniment

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Médicament fait d’huile et d’autres substances, qui s’emploie en frictions ou en applications pour adoucir et amollir.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of liniment

  • liniments plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce liniment?

  • \li.ni.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to liniment

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is liniment in French?

liniment appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).