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English
Etymology
From Middle English oximel, from Late Latin oxymel, oxymeli (“acid and honey”), from Ancient Greek ὀξύμελι (oxúmeli).
Pronunciation
Noun
oxymel (plural oxymels)
- (historical, medicine) A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.
Translations
Translations
- Arabic: سِكَنْجَبِين m (sikanjabīn), سِكَنْجُبِين m (sikanjubīn), سِرْكَنْجَبِين m (sirkanjabīn), سِرْكَنْجُبِين m (sirkanjubīn)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: hapanhunaja, oxymel
- French: oxymel (fr)
- German: Sauerhonig m, Essigmet m, Honigessig m, Essigsirup m, Oxymel n
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: ὀξύμελι n (oxúmeli)
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Ido: mielmixuro
- Italian: ossimiele m
- Latin: oxymel n, oxymeli n, oxymelum n
- Middle English: oximel
- Persian: سکنگبین (fa) (sekangabin, sekangobin), سرکنگبین (serkangabin, serkangobin), سکنجبین (sekanjabin)
- Swedish: oxymel c
- Turkish:
- Modern Turkish: sirkencebin, sikencebin, sirkengebin (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: سركنجبین (sirkencebin, sirkencübin), سكنجبین (sikencebin, sikencübin), سركنگبین (sirkengebin, sirkengübin), سركنگبین (sikengebin, sikengübin)
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French
Noun
oxymel m (plural oxymels)
- oxymel
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