thymiama

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama).

Noun

thȳmiāma n (genitive thȳmiāmatis); third declension

1. 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).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thȳmiāma	thȳmiāmata
Genitive	thȳmiāmatis	thȳmiāmatum
Dative	thȳmiāmatī	thȳmiāmatibus
Accusative	thȳmiāma	thȳmiāmata
Ablative	thȳmiāmate	thȳmiāmatibus
Vocative	thȳmiāma	thȳmiāmata

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *thȳmānea
  • Catalan: tomaní
  • Old French: timoine
  • Romanian: tămâie
  • Sardinian: timagna, timanza, timonza
• → Middle High German: thymiāme, thimiān
  • German: Thymian (see there for further descendants)

See also

• tūs

References

• “thymiama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thymiama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• thymiama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.