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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Zosimos of Panopolis it was named from its supposed inventor, Χύμης/Χήμης/Χείμης, but more probably it is from χῠ́μᾰ (khúma) + -είᾱ (-eíā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰy.měː.aː/ → /çyˈmi.a/ → /çiˈmi.a/
Noun
χῠμείᾱ • (khumeíā) f (genitive χῠμείᾱς); first declension
- art of alloying metals, alchemy
Declension
Descendants
- Arabic: اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ) (see there for further descendants)
References
- “χυμεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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, page 1653