Meanings
- historicaluncountableAn unfermented kind of Egyptian malt beer.
Cartwright looked up from the Chamber’s^([sic]) 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.
1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 14–15
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn unfermented kind of Egyptian malt beer.
Origin
- Ancient Greekζῦθος
- Latinzȳthum
- Englishzythum
From Latin zȳthum, from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos).
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