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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of Semitic origin, borrowed from Hebrew בָּשָׂם (bāśām, “sweet spice, sweet smell”), the consonant sequence in Greek being explained as an attempt of rendering שׂ (ś) sounding back then ; the semantic development may later have been attached to Aramaic and Ancient North Arabian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bál.sa.mon/ → /ˈβal.sa.mon/ → /ˈval.sa.mon/
Noun
βᾰ́λσᾰμον • (bálsamon) n (genitive βᾰλσᾰμου); second declension
- Arabian balsam tree (Commiphora gileadensis)
- balsam, the fragrant oil produced by this tree
- costmary (Tanacetum balsamita)
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Further reading
- “βάλσαμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βάλσαμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάλσαμον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βάλσαμον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) “በለሳን”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 97b