Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• (Egyptian beer brewed with barley): ζῦτος ‎(zûtos)
• ζύθος ‎(zúthos) codical variant

Noun

ζῦθος • ‎(zûthos) m ‎(genitive ζῡ́θου); second declension
ζῦθος • ‎(zûthos) n ‎(genitive ζῡ́θεος or ζῡ́θους); third declension

1. an Egyptian kind of beer, brewed with barley
   • 371 BCE – 287 BCE, Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 6.11.2
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 2.87
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 17.1.14

     ἅπασα μὲν ἡ χώρα αὕτη οὐκ εὔοινος, πλείω δεχομένου τοῦ κεράμου θάλατταν ἢ οἶνον ὃν δὴ καλοῦσι Λιβυκόν, ᾧ δὴ καὶ τῷ ζύθῳ τὸ πολὺ φῦλον χρῆται τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων·

   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 1.34
2. beer of northern nations
   • Posidon. 15.J.
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 3.3.7

     χρῶνται δὲ καὶ ζύθει·

   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 5.26
   • Phot.
   • 40 CE – 115 CE, Dio Chrysostom, Collected Works 32.82
   • Colum. 10.116

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References

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ζῦθος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 503

• ζῦθος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press