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calamint

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
calamint
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha, now often included in Clinopodium.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From French calament (assimilated in English to mint), from Old French calament, calamente, from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthe, from Ancient Greek καλαμίνθη (kalamínthē, “an odoriferous plant”), of uncertain origin (either by haplology from *καλαμο-μίνθη (*kalamo-mínthē) or a loanword, which Beekes considers most likely to be from Pre-Greek). Attested since early 17th century.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: calament, calamentum, calaminthe, καλαμίνθη

Usage

Inflected Forms

calamints (plural)

Phrases

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Questions

What does calamint mean?
Any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha, now often included in Clinopodium.
Where does calamint come from?
It is traced to French.

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