zythum

From Latin zȳthum, from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪθəm/

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zythum (uncountable)

1. (historical) An unfermented kind of Egyptian malt beer.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, pages 21-22:

     Cartwright looked up from the Chambers Encyclopaedia... One day he would get right to the end, to zythum. Not that he needed to. He had already peeped ahead and seen that it was a kind of ancient Egyptian beer, much recommended by Diodorus Siculus—whoever he was.

• zythos, sisni

• “zythum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /zi.tɔm/

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zythum m (plural zythums)

1. zythum

• “zythum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzyː.tʰum/, [ˈd̪͡z̪yːt̪ʰʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zi.tum/, [ˈd̪͡z̪iːt̪um]
• (Traditional English) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪ̯.θəm/

zȳthum n (genitive zȳthī); second declension

1. a type of alcoholic drink associated with Egypt

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• camum, cēlia, cervēsa

• “zythum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “zythum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “zythum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• zythum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “zȳthum” on page 2,126/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)