θυμίαμα

• θῡμῐ́ημᾰ (thūmĭ́ēmă) — Ionic

From θῡμῐᾰ́ω (thūmĭắō, “to burn”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

θῡμῐ́ᾱμᾰ • (thūmĭ́āmă) n (genitive θῡμῐᾱ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. that which is burnt as incense or fumigation
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.198
   • Amphis Odysseus.1.5
   1. (mostly in plural) fragrant stuffs for burning, incense

      Synonym: (Ionic) θῡμῐητᾰ́ n pl (thūmĭētắ)

      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.130
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.54
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 4
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 1716
   2. stuff for embalming
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.71

• Greek: θυμίαμα (thymíama)
  • → Aromanian: timnjamã
• → Gothic: 𐌸𐍅𐌼𐌹𐌰𐌼𐌰 (þwmiama)
• → Latin: thȳmiāma
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *thȳmānea
    • Catalan: tomaní
    • Megleno-Romanian: tămǫnă
    • Old French: timoine
    • Romanian: tămâie
    • Sardinian: timagna, timanza, timonza
  • → Middle High German: thymiāme, thimiān
    • German: Thymian (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Church Slavonic: ѳѵмїамъ (θümiamŭ)
  • → Russian: фимиа́м (fimiám), ѳѵміа́мъ (fimiám) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

• “θυμίαμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θυμίαμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θυμίαμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2368 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• θυμιάμα n (thymiáma)

From Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama).

θυμίαμα • (thymíama) n (plural θυμιάματα)

1. incense resin
2. incense fumes

• θυμιατό n (thymiató, “incense burner, censer, thurible”)
• θυμιατίζω (thymiatízo, “to incense, to burn incense”)

• → Aromanian: timnjamã