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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Natively connected with ἀκή (akḗ) and ἄκαινα (ákaina) from a root related to sharpness, but this does not explain the initial ὤ-. According to Beekes, the presence of similar words ἄκινος (ákinos, “wild basil”) and ὤκινον (ṓkinon, “clover”) shows Pre-Greek origin. Löw and Nöldeke explain with a borrowing from Aramaic, retained in Classical Syriac ܚܘܟܐ (ḥawkā, “basil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ̌ː.ki.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/ → /ˈo.ci.mon/
Noun
ὤκῐμον • (ṓkimon) n (genitive ὠκῐ́μου); second declension
- basil (Ocimum basilicum)
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Further reading
- “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὤκιμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὤκιμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 79
- Moattar, Fariborz (1971) Ismāʻīl Ǧorǧānī und seine Bedeutung für die iranische Heilkunde, insbesondere Pharmazie, unter Berücksichtigung seiner Verdienste für die Gestaltung der neupersischen Sprache (in German), Marburg an der Lahn: Görich & Weiershäuser, page 233
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN