hysopites

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὑσσωπίτης (hussōpítēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hyː.soːˈpiː.teːs/, [hyːs̠oːˈpiːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.soˈpi.tes/, [is̬oˈpiːt̪es]

Noun

hysōpitēs m (genitive hysōpitae); first declension

1. hyssop wine, wine flavored with hyssop
   • 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

   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 14.109:

     similiter hyssopites e Cilicio hyssopo unciis tribus in duos congios musti coiectis aut tusis in unum.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	hȳsōpītēs	hȳsōpītae
genitive	hȳsōpītae	hȳsōpītārum
dative	hȳsōpītae	hȳsōpītīs
accusative	hȳsōpītēn	hȳsōpītās
ablative	hȳsōpītē	hȳsōpītīs
vocative	hȳsōpītē	hȳsōpītae

References

• “hysopites”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hysopites in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.