thymiama

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama).

Noun

thȳmiāma n (genitive thȳmiāmatis); third declension

1. incense, fumigant
   • 392 CE, Jerome, Against Jovinianus II.8:

     Odoris autem suavitas et diversa thymiamata et amomum et cyphi, oenanthe, muscus et peregrini muris pellicula, quod dissolutis et amatoribus conveniat, nemo nisi dissolutus negat.

     That the sweetness of the smell of various kinds of incense and amomum and cyphi, oenanthe, musk, and the skins of the exotic mouse fit the dissolute and loving nobody but a dissolute will negate.

References

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