Hymettus

Hymettus

1. A mountain of Attica, famous for its honey and marble.
   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 557:

     [T]ime had mellowed the marble to the colour of honey, so that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened their outlines.

• Hymettian
• Hymettic

• Hymettos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑμηττός (Humēttós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hyˈmeːt.tus/, [hʏˈmeːt̪ːʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈmet.tus/, [iˈmɛt̪ːus]

Hymēttus m sg (genitive Hymēttī); second declension

1. A mountain of Attica, famous for its marble and honey

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• Hymettius

• “Hymettus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hymettus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Hymettus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette