单词 | zythum |
释义 | zythumn. In ancient Egypt: a kind of malt beer.Much of the word's continuing use is due to its status as the last word listed in several dictionaries (cf. quots. 1854, 1985). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > other kinds of beer spruce beerc1500 March beer1535 Lubecks beer1608 zythum1608 household beer1616 bottle1622 mumc1623 old beer1626 six1631 four1633 maize beer1663 mum beer1667 vinegar beer1677 wrest-beer1689 nog1693 October1705 October beer1707 ship-beer1707 butt beer1730 starting beer1735 butt1743 peterman1767 seamen's beer1795 chang1800 treacle beer1806 stock beer1826 Iceland beer1828 East India pale ale1835 India pale ale1837 faro1847 she-oak1848 Bass1849 bitter beer1850 bock1856 treble X1856 Burton1861 nettle beer1864 honey beer1867 pivo1873 Lambic1889 steam beer1898 barley-beer1901 gueuze1926 Kriek1936 best1938 rough1946 keg1949 IPA1953 busaa1967 mbege1972 microbrew1985 microbeer1986 yeast-beer- 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 62 For the better auoydance & purging out of the digested venome..giue the party Garlicke beaten with Zythum, vntill he vomit. 1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iv.xxi.149 In Hiberia toward the west and in Britany; whence Pliny, of Corn drink is made: Beer in Egypt, called Zythum, in Spain Caelia and Ceria, Beer in France and other Provinces. 1733 Art of Nursing (ed. 2) xii. 35 This Kind of Drink will keep longer than the Zythum of the Ancients, which being made of nothing but Wheat boil'd in Water, soon turn'd soure, because they put no Hops into it. 1791 C. Dunster in J. Philips Cider (new ed.) i. 58 The ancients had their Zythum, or drink made from Barley; but it was reckoned very unwholesome. 1854 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1281/3 Zythum, a beverage: a liquor made from malt and wheat. 1868 Ladies' Repository Nov. 340 What will we drink? Median, or, rather, Babylonian beer, or Egyptian zythum, or domestic cider? 1936 Sci. Monthly Apr. 364 An inebriating beverage named Zythum, evidently a beer of some kind, known to be made from barley, is also mentioned by Columella. 1985 Guardian (Nexis) 18 July You want to know the last time the Guardian..mentioned anything from aardvarks to zythum..then just a couple of seconds there it is: up on your screen. 2001 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 8 June 28 For the thousands of years that the Egyptians were building pyramids they were brewing zythum to quench their thirsts, to satisfy their gods, nourish their appetites and to help them relax. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1608 |
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