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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama).
Noun
thȳmiāma n (genitive thȳmiāmatis); third declension
- incense, fumigant
392 CE,
Jerome,
Against Jovinianus II.8:
- Odoris autem suavitas et diversa thymiamata et amomum et cyphi, oenanthe, muscus et peregrini muris pellicula, quod dissolutis et amatoribus conveniat, nemo nisi dissolutus negat.
- That the sweetness of the smell of various kinds of incense and amomum and cyphi, oenanthe, musk, and the skins of the exotic mouse fit the dissolute and loving nobody but a dissolute will negate.
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
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