zythum

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪθəm/

zythum (uncountable)

1. (historical) An unfermented kind of Egyptian malt beer.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, pp. 21–2:

     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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• IPA^(key): /zi.tɔm/

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zythum m (plural zythums)

1. zythum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzyː.tʰum/, [ˈzyː.tʰũ]

zȳthum n (genitive zȳthī); second declension

1. beer or ale

Second declension.

• (beer): cervisia

• 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)