thymites

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θυμίτης (thumítēs, “flavored with thyme”), itself from θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tʰyˈmiː.tes/, [t̪ʰʏˈmiːt̪ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tiˈmi.tes/, [t̪iˈmiːt̪es]

Noun

thymītēs m (genitive thymītae); first declension}

1. thyme-wine, wine flavored with thyme
   • 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

Declension

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

	singular	plural
nominative	thymītēs	thymītae
genitive	thymītae	thymītārum
dative	thymītae	thymītīs
accusative	thymītēn	thymītās
ablative	thymītē	thymītīs
vocative	thymītē	thymītae

Related terms

• thymum
• thymus
• thymium
• thymōsus

References

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