oxymel

English

Etymology

From Middle English oximel, from Late Latin oxymel, oxymeli (“acid and honey”), from Ancient Greek ὀξύμελι (oxúmeli).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒksɪmɛl/

Noun

oxymel (plural oxymels)

1. (historical, medicine) A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:

     If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: سِكَنْجَبِين m (sikanjabīn), سِكَنْجُبِين m (sikanjubīn), سِرْكَنْجَبِين m (sirkanjabīn), سِرْكَنْجُبِين m (sirkanjubīn)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hapanhunaja, oxymel
• French: oxymel (fr)
• German: Sauerhonig m, Essigmet m, Honigessig m, Essigsirup m, Oxymel n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὀξύμελι n (oxúmeli)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: mielmixuro
• Italian: ossimiele m
• Latin: oxymel n, oxymeli n, oxymelum n
• Middle English: oximel
• Persian: سکنگبین (fa) (sekangabin, sekangobin), سرکنگبین (serkangabin, serkangobin), سکنجبین (sekanjabin)
• Swedish: oxymel c
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: sirkencebin, sikencebin, sirkengebin (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سركنجبین (sirkencebin, sirkencübin), سكنجبین (sikencebin, sikencübin), سركنگبین (sirkengebin, sirkengübin), سركنگبین (sikengebin, sikengübin)

Anagrams

• Moxley

French

Noun

oxymel m (plural oxymels)

1. oxymel

Further reading

• “oxymel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.