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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English absinthium, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]absinthium (uncountable)
- (now rare) Common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.][1]
- The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.[2]
- absinthe oil
Translations
[edit]Artemisia absinthium — see wormwood
absinthe oil — see absinthe oil
References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absinthium”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 5
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈsin.tʰi.um/, [äpˈs̠ɪn̪t̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈsin.ti.um/, [äbˈsin̪t̪ium]
Noun
[edit]absinthium n (genitive absinthiī or absinthī); second declension
- wormwood
- Apicius Caelius, De Re Coquinaria 1.3:
- Conditi Camerini praeceptis, utique pro absinthio cessante; in cuius vicem absinthi Pontici purgati terendique unciam, Thebaicam dabis, masticis, folii scripulos III, vini eius modi sextarios XVIII. Carbones amaritudo non exigit.
- 2009 translation by Joseph Dommers Vehling
- Roman vermouth [or Absinth] is made thus: according to the recipe of Camerinum you need wormwood from Santo for Roman vermouth or, as a substitute, wormwood from the Pontus cleaned and curshed, 1 Theban ounce of it, 6 scuples of masitch, 3 each of [nard] leaves, costmary and saffron and 18 quarts of any kind of mild wine. [Filter cold] charcoal is required because of the bitterness.
- 2009 translation by Joseph Dommers Vehling
- Conditi Camerini praeceptis, utique pro absinthio cessante; in cuius vicem absinthi Pontici purgati terendique unciam, Thebaicam dabis, masticis, folii scripulos III, vini eius modi sextarios XVIII. Carbones amaritudo non exigit.
- an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
- (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome
- c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5:
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | absinthium | absinthia |
Genitive | absinthiī absinthī1 |
absinthiōrum |
Dative | absinthiō | absinthiīs |
Accusative | absinthium | absinthia |
Ablative | absinthiō | absinthiīs |
Vocative | absinthium | absinthia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings
- → Catalan: absinti
- → Galician: absintio
- → Georgian: აბზინდა (abzinda)
- → Middle Dutch: absinthium
- → Dutch: absint
- → Middle English: absinthium
- English: absinthium
- → Middle French: absinthe
- → Middle Irish: aipsint
- → Irish: apsaint
- → Norman: absînthe
- → Occitan: absinti, absinta
- → Piedmontese: absent, absenta
- → Portuguese: absíntio
- → Spanish: absintio
- → Translingual: Absinthium
References
[edit]- “absinthium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- absinthium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “absinthium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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