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zythem

zythem is the obsolete spelling of zythum.

Meaning of zythum

Noun

zythum (uncountable)

  1. (historical) An unfermented kind of Egyptian malt beer.
    • Cartwright looked up from the Chamber’s^([sic]) Encyclopaedia […] One day he would get right to the end, to zythum. Not that he needed to. He had already peeped ahead and seen that it was a kind of ancient Egyptian beer, much recommended by Diodorus Siculus – whoever he was.1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 14–15
    Synonyms:
    zythos, sisni

Questions about zythem

What is zythem the obsolete spelling of?
Zythem is the obsolete spelling of zythum.

Words near zythem in the dictionary

  1. Zys
  2. Zysk
  3. Zyskowski
  4. Zyskowskis
  5. Zysks
  6. zythem
  7. zythepsaries
  8. zythepsary
  9. zytho-
  10. zythological
  11. zythology

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zythem (page history and authors); zythum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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