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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From θύω (thúō, “to smoke”). Beekes suggests that this is "doubtful" and that "s a local plant name, the word is liable to be of Pre-Greek origin".[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰý.mon/ → /ˈθy.mon/ → /ˈθi.mon/
Noun
θύμον • (thúmon) n (genitive θύμου); second declension
- thyme (plant of the genus Thymus)
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References
Further reading
- “θύμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “θύμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θύμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN