συκάμῑνον

συκάμῑνον

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `fruit of the mulberry-tree, mulberry'(Amphis, Arist.).

Derivatives: -ῑνος f. (m.) `mulberry-(fig)tree' (Arist., Thphr., middl. com. etc.) with -ῑνινος `of the mulberry-(fig)tree' (Sotad. Com., hell. pap.; on the formation Schulze KZ 43, 189 = Kl. Schr. 308), -ινώδης `mulberry-like' (Thphr.). Also -ῑνέα f. = -ῑνος (after συκέα a.o.; Aesop., Dsc. a.o.). -ινεων = moretum (gloss.).

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Semit.

Etymology: Sem. LW [loanword]; cf. primarily Aram. pl. šiq^emīn (Hebr. sg. šiqmā) `mulberrytrees', with adaptation(?) to σῦκον. Lewy Fremdw. 23 (w. lit.), Strömberg Pflanzenn. 36, Ross KZ 77, 273; on the matter Schrader-Nehring Reallex. 2, 50 f. Ruijgh?

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