Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zythepsary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zythep-sary
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"1861, uncredited contributor, “Wandering Words” in All the Year Round, Volume 5, No. 106, 4 May, 1961, p. 144, But the oddest things of all are to be found in the dictionaries. Why they are all kept there no one knows; but what man in his senses would use such words as zythepsary for a brew-house, and zumologist for a brewer […]"
"...and we Employ the same old diastase In orgulous zythepsaries."
"Zythepsary equipment — there's a vast change nowadays!"
"He was full of inkhorn words going so far as to call grog shops zythepsaries, which seemed several syllables too long to be uttered by any I had ever met within such places […]"

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek ζῦθος (zûthos, “barley beer”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “to boil”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

zythepsaries (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

zymurgy

Questions

What does zythepsary mean?: A brewery.
Where does zythepsary come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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