oxymel

English

From Middle English oximel, from Late Latin oxymel, oxymeli (“acid and honey”), from Ancient Greek ὀξύμελι (oxúmeli).

oxymel (plural oxymels)

(historical, medicine) A mixture of honey, water, and vinegar, boiled to a syrup, sometimes mixed with herbs or spices.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:
  If it long continue, vomits may be taken after meat, or otherwise gently procured with warm water, oxymel, etc., now and then.

Arabic: سِكَنْجَبِين m (sikanjabīn), سِكَنْجُبِين m (sikanjubīn), سِرْكَنْجَبِين m (sirkanjabīn), سِرْكَنْجُبِين m (sirkanjubīn)
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Finnish: hapanhunaja, oxymel
French: oxymel (fr)
German: Sauerhonig m, Essigmet m, Honigessig m, Essigsirup m, Oxymel n
Greek:
Ancient Greek: ὀξύμελι n (oxúmeli)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Ido: mielmixuro
Italian: ossimiele m
Latin: oxymel n, oxymeli n, oxymelum n
Middle English: oximel
Persian: سکنگبین (fa) (sekangabin, sekangobin), سرکنگبین (serkangabin, serkangobin), سکنجبین (sekanjabin)
Swedish: oxymel c
Turkish:
Modern Turkish: sirkencebin, sikencebin, sirkengebin (tr)

Ottoman Turkish: سركنجبین (sirkencebin, sirkencübin), سكنجبین (sikencebin, sikencübin), سركنگبین (sirkengebin, sirkengübin), سركنگبین (sikengebin, sikengübin)

oxymel m (plural oxymels)