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vernix
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English
Etymology
Derived from Medieval Latin vernix (“varnish”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vernix (uncountable)
- (obstetrics, medicine) Vernix caseosa; a fatty deposit covering the skin of newborn babies.
- 2004, Armin A Brott, The New Father, Mitchell Beazley, published 2011, page 21:
- The cheesy stuff is called vernix, and it's a natural moisturizer that protects the baby's skin while she's in the womb.
- 2009 November 7, Sam Leith, The Guardian:
- But when – like Troy in the end of the film – you are presented for the first time with an angry, purple, bloody, vernix-covered, shit-smeared, breathing human being, everything changes.
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Latin
Alternative forms
- bernīx, veronīx
Etymology
Perhaps from Byzantine Greek Βερενίκη (Bereníkē), from Ancient Greek.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwɛr.niːks]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvɛr.niks]
Noun
vernīx m (genitive vernīcis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- vernīcium
Descendants
References
- "vernix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- uernix in Ramminger, Johann (22 May 2015 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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