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ζῦθος

zuthos · ὁ

beer, beer

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What it meant — LSJ

beer

an Egyptian kind of beer, brewed with barley, Thphr. CP 6.11.2, Dsc. 2.87, Str. 17.1.14, D.S. 1.34, etc.; cf. ζῦτος.

2 beer

beer of northern nations, Posidon. 15J., Str. 3.3.7, D.S. 5.26. (The word was used in Egypt acc. to Thphr. l.c., etc.: written ζυτο- (q. v.) in the older Pap.: freq. accented ζύθος in codd., but ζῦθος Phot., ζῡ- in verse, Poet. ap. D.Chr. 32.82, Colum. 10.116.)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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