κύμινον
χρώμεθα γὰρ πολιτείᾳ οὐ ζηλούσῃ τοὺς τῶν πέλας νόμους → we live under a form of government which does not emulate the institutions of our neighbours
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], τό,
A cummin, Hp.Acut.23, Antiph.142.2, Alex.127.6, LXX Is.28.25, PTeb.112.13 (ii B.C.), etc.; κύμινον ἔπρισεν, prov. of a skinflint, Sophr.110, cf. Men.1025, Theoc.10.55; κ. ἥμερον, Cuminum Cyminum, Dsc.3.59, cf. Thphr.HP1.11.2, Nic.Th.601; κ. ἄγριον (ἀγρότερον ib.710), wild cummin, Lagoecia cuminoeides, Dsc. 3.60; κ. ἄγριον ἕτερον, Nigella arvensis, ib.61; κ. αἰθιοπικόν Diocl. Fr.87. (Cf. Hebr. Kammôn.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1530] τό, Kümmel, das Kraut u. der Saamen, Theophr. u. Folgde; unter anderen Gewürzen aufgezählt von Antiphan. bei Ath. II, 68 a; die änge des ι geht unter andern hervor aus Archest. ei Ath. III, 101 c.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κύμῑνον: τό, ὡς καὶ νῦν, κοινῶς «κύμνος», Λατ. cuminum, Σώφρων (42) ἐν Mus. Cr. 2. σ. 350, Ἱππ. περὶ Διαίτ. Ὀξ. 387 ἐχρησίμευεν ὡς ἄρτυμα ἢ ἥδυσμα ἐδεσμάτων, Ἀντιφ. ἐν «Λευκαδίῳ» 1. 2, Ἄλεξ. ἐν «Λέβητι» 2. 6, κτλ.· ― παροιμ. ἐπὶ φειδωλοῦ ἀνθρώπου (ἴδε τὸ ἑπομ.), Μένανδ. ἐν Ἀδήλ. 363. Πρβλ. τὸ Ἑβρ. Kammôn).
French (Bailly abrégé)
cumin, plante et graine qui servait comme assaisonnement.
Étymologie: DELG emprunt sémit.
Spanish
English (Strong)
of foreign origin (compare כַּמֹּן); dill or fennel ("cummin"): cummin.
English (Thayer)
κυμινου, τό, cumin (or cummin), German Kümmel, (for כַּמֹּן, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Plutarch, others) (Tristram, Nat. Hist. etc., p. 443.)
Greek Monotonic
κύμῑνον: τό, κύμινο, σε Αττ., Κ.Δ. (αμφίβ. προέλ.).
Russian (Dvoretsky)
κύμῑνον: (ῠ) τό бот. тмин NT, Plut.: καταπρίων τὸ κ. Theocr. = κυμινοπρίστης.
Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)
κύμινον -ου, τό komijn.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: n.
Meaning: cummin (Hp., Sophr., com.), ;
Dialectal forms: Myc. kumino \/kuminon\/.
Compounds: as 1. member e.g. in κυμινο-πρίστης "cummin-splitter", i.e. skin-flint (Arist., corn.).
Derivatives: κυμιν-ώδης c.-like (Thphr.), -ινος of c., -ᾶς c.-seller (inscr. Jaffa), -εύω sprinkle with c. (Orac. ap. Luc.).
Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
Etymology: Sem. LW [loanword]; cf. Hebr. kammōn, Akkad. kamūnu etc. (Lewy Fremdw. 38), but Kretschmer KZ 29, 440 found them rather in the plant-names κάμων (Nic.) and σκαμ(μ)ωνία, -ώνιον (com., Nic.) kind of bindweed. "Vielleicht ist mit Lewy eine zwiefache Entlehnung anzunehmen." (Frisk). Cf. also Grimme Glotta 14, 19. Ruijgh thought that the word, with its typical Pre-Greek suffix -ιν-, was in first instance a loan from Anatolia (or the Aegaean) and Semitic could have it from the same source (Lingua 58, 1982, 209), cf. Fur. 187 n. 18 on βράθυ. See E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 51. - Lat. LW [loanword] cumīnum; from there the modern Europ. forms (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 655).
