passumn.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ss Its seed brayed and drunk in passum [L. ex passo]..diduces its passages.

1753 J. Warton tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics I. ii. 229 Passum is a wine made from raisins, or dried grapes, common both in Italy and the south of France. But the grapes are only hung up to dry, and not squeezed into barrels like our common raisins.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 381 The passum was made from raisins.

1857 E. Nott tr. Polybius in Lect. on Temperance iv. 114 Among the Romans the women were forbidden to drink wine; they drank a wine which is called passum (Latine, Passum), and this was made from dried grapes or raisins.

1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food ix. 266 But at home ladies still drank passum, a decoction of raisins.

1995 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 18 May h10 This recipe calls for both honey and passum, the two main sweeteners used in ancient Rome. Passum was a wine made from raisins and would have tasted like sweet Marsala.