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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
According to Beekes, the variations prove a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /psǐː.my.tʰos/ → /ˈpsi.my.θos/ → /ˈpsi.mi.θos/
Noun
ψῑ́μῠθος • (psī́muthos) m (genitive ψῑμῠ́θου); second declension
- white lead, especially used as a pigment to whiten the skin
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ψίμυθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ψίμυθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ψίμυθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1669