thymum Latin · revision 34067

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=grc θύμον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈtʰy.mũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈtiː.mum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''thymum''' ''n'' (genitive thymī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The spelling ''thum-'' occurs in Celsus.^(OLD 2012)

+ The spelling ''tym-'' occurs in Valerius Maximus.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|θύμον|tr=thúmon]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler compares the Greek word with [[ine-pro|*dʰeu̯h₂-|t=to blow, smoke, reek]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who has it in the ''Eclogues'' and the ''Aeneid''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The OLD describes it as a plant valued above all for its nectar: in Greece a kind of savory or wild thyme, extended in the west to include thyme proper.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short likewise take it of both the common or Roman thyme and the Cretan or Greek kind.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It occurs in Horace, Ovid, Pliny the Elder and Quintilian,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and the plural is used by Ovid and Martial.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder distinguishes kinds of thyme.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|thyme|alt=Thyme]], or a related plant such as [[m|en|savory]], valued for its [[m|en|nectar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[thymōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[thymus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}