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alembic

Meaningcup or still head

Common meaning: apparatus used for distillation

Journey through time

  1. Greekambix‘cup or still head’source
  2. Arabical-anbīq‘the still’source
  3. Spanishalambique‘still’source
  4. Englishalembic‘apparatus used for distillation’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Greek ambix ‘cup or still head’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry ALEMBIC, p. 15 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • ambix Greek “cup or still head”

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