κύμινον: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], τό, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[cummin]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>23</span>, <span class="bibl">Antiph.142.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Alex.127.6</span>, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Is.</span>28.25</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>112.13</span> (ii B.C.), etc.; <b class="b3">κύμινον ἔπρισεν</b>, prov. of a skinflint, <span class="bibl">Sophr.110</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Men.1025</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.10.55</span>; <b class="b3">κ. ἥμερον</b>, [[Cuminum Cyminum]], Dsc.3.59, cf. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.11.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Th.</span>601</span>; <b class="b3">κ. ἄγριον</b> (<b class="b3">ἀγρότερον</b> ib.<span class="bibl">710</span>), [[wild cummin]], [[Lagoecia cuminoeides]], Dsc. 3.60; <b class="b3">κ. ἄγριον ἕτερον</b>, [[Nigella arvensis]], ib.61; κ. αἰθιοπικόν Diocl. Fr.87. (Cf. Hebr. [[Kammôn]].) </span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: [[cummin]] (Hp., Sophr., com.), ;<br />Dialectal forms: Myc. <b class="b2">kumino \/kuminon\/</b>.<br />Compounds: as 1. member e.g. in <b class="b3">κυμινο-πρίστης</b> "cummin-splitter", i.e. [[skin-flint]] (Arist., corn.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κυμιν-ώδης</b> <b class="b2">c.-like</b> (Thphr.), <b class="b3">-ινος</b> <b class="b2">of c.</b>, <b class="b3">-ᾶς</b> <b class="b2">c.-seller</b> (inscr. Jaffa), <b class="b3">-εύω</b> <b class="b2">sprinkle with c.</b> (Orac. ap. Luc.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />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 <b class="b3">κάμων</b> (Nic.) and <b class="b3">σκαμ(μ)ωνία</b>, <b class="b3">-ώνιον</b> (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 <b class="b3">-ιν-</b>, 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 <b class="b3">βράθυ</b>. See E. Masson, Emprunts sémit. 51. - Lat. LW [loanword] [[cumīnum]]; from there the modern Europ. forms (Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 1, 655).