caput mortuum
Meanings
noun
- Worthless residue of sublimation or distillation.
- Cardinal purple, a variety of haematite iron oxide pigment.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin caput mortuum (literally “dead head”).
Related words
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.