epithema

English edit

Etymology edit

From New Latin epithema, from Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “lid, cover”).

Noun edit

epithema

(zoology) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “epithema”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek ἐπίθεμα (epíthema, “a cover, column capital, poultice”).

Noun edit

epithema n (genitive epithematis); third declension

poultice, medical lotion, epithem
(Medieval Latin) Alternative form of epithymum

Descendants edit

Italian: pittima^[1]
Leonese: bilma
Old Spanish: bidma, bizma
- Spanish: bizma

References edit

^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bizma”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 597

“epithema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “epithema”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

[1] Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “bizma”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 597

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