malagma

Borrowed from Latin malagma. Doublet of amalgam.

malagma (plural malagmas or malagmata)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A cataplasm.

• amalgam

From Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma). Doublet of amalgama.

malagma n (genitive malagmatis); third declension
malagma f (genitive malagmae); first declension

1. emollient, poultice, cataplasm

• “malagma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• malagma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• malagma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.