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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀖𐀜 (ku-mi-no), borrowed from Semitic, compare Ge'ez ከሚን (kämin), ካሚን (kamin), ከሙን (kämun), ከሜን (kämen), Arabic كَمُّون (kammūn), Hebrew כַּמֹּון (kammōn), Aramaic כַּמֹּונָֹא / ܩܰܡܽܘܢܳܐ (kammōnā, “cumin”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /kamūnu/, “cumin”). Note also Old Armenian չաման (čʻaman).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ký.miː.non/ → /ˈcy.mi.non/ → /ˈci.mi.non/
Noun
κύμῑνον • (kúmīnon) n (genitive κυμίνου); second declension
- cumin
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Latin: cumīnum (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “κύμινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κύμινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κύμινον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2951 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Rosół, Rafał (2013) Frühe Semitische Lehnwörter im Griechischen (in German), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pages 55–56