thym
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛ̃/
Audio (Paris): (file) - Homophones: tain, tains, teint, teints, thyms, tins, tint, tînt
Noun
thym m (plural thyms)
- thyme (Thymus)
- Synonym: farigoule
- 2013, Henri Joyeux, Guillaume Bouguet, Le thym et le chirurgien:
- Comment conserver le thym ? Le thym frais peut être stocké au réfrigérateur enveloppé dans du papier journal ou papier kraft, jamais dans un sac plastique. Humidifié, il peut être mis dans de pots en verre teinté foncé, et pourra ainsi être conservé plusieurs mois loin de la lumière.
- How do you preserve thyme? Fresh thyme can be stored in the refrigerator wrapped in newspaper or brown paper, never in a plastic bag. It can also be put into dark-coloured glass jars with some water, and kept for several months away from light.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “thym” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “thym” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “thym”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.