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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θυμίτης (thumítēs, “flavored with thyme”), itself from θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).
Pronunciation
Noun
thymītēs m (genitive thymītae); first declension}
- thyme-wine, wine flavored with thyme
4 CE – c. 70 CE,
Columella,
De Agricultura 12.35:
- Vinum absinthiten, et hyssopiten, et abrotoniten, et thymiten, et marathriten, et glechoniten sic condire oportet.
- It is thus proper to spice wine with wormwood, hyssop, southern-wood, thyme, fennel, and pennyroal
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
References
- “thymites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thymites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.