noun
olibanum
Olibanum (noun) means a resin taken from Boswellia trees; it used to serve as a medicine and today is burnt chiefly as incense.
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A resin taken from Boswellia trees; it used to serve as a medicine and today is burnt chiefly as incense.
"Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum."
— Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art (1936)
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Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, from Latin oleum libani, whose first word means 'oil' and whose second comes from Ancient Greek λίβανος (líbanos, 'frankincense (Boswellia sacra)'), from a Semitic source; compare Proto-Semitic *laban- ('white'). It is cognate with Biblical Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, 'frankincense') and Arabic لبان (lubān, 'frankincense'). (Compare benzoin for a similar process of metanalysis.) It is a doublet of oliban.
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What is the meaning of olibanum?
"olibanum" (noun) means a resin taken from Boswellia trees; it used to serve as a medicine and today is burnt chiefly as incense.
What is another word for olibanum?
Other words for "olibanum" include thus, frankincense.
