Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀψίνθιον • ‎(apsínthion) n ‎(genitive ἀψινθίου); second declension

1. wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.5.1

     ἐν τούτῳ δὲ τῷ τόπῳ ἦν μὲν ἡ γῆ πεδίον ἅπαν ὁμαλὲς ὥσπερ θάλαττα, ἀψινθίου δὲ πλῆρες·

     In this region the ground was all a plain, flat like the sea, and full of wormwood.

2. absinthe

Inflection

References

• ἀψίνθιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀψίνθιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀψίνθιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀψίνθιον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • wormwood idem, page 990.