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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Herodotus, from Phoenician; compare Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (kinamón, “cinnamon”). The ending was modelled on that of ἄμωμον (ámōmon, “black cardamom”), or due to folk etymology, on that of ἄμωμος (ámōmos, “blameless”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kin.ná.mɔː.mon/ → /cinˈna.mo.mon/ → /ciˈna.mo.mon/
Noun
κῐννᾰ́μωμον • (kinnámōmon) n (genitive κῐννᾰμώμου); second declension
- Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)
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Further reading
- “κιννάμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κιννάμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κιννάμωμον 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
- Boisacq, Émile (1916) “κιννάμωμον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 457
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 107–108 is explicit that he reckons the explanation as “Chinese ἄμωμον (ámōmon)” erroneous or a secondary connection