different between olibanum vs thuris

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, Late Latin libanus, from Latin oleum libani (“oil of Lebanon”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia carterii, now Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source. See the Semitic root lbn ????, meaning "white". See also (Biblical Hebrew ????????? (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic ????? (lub?n, “frankincense”)). Compare benzoin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l?b?n?m/

Noun

olibanum (countable and uncountable, plural olibanums)

1. A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense. [from 14th c.]

Synonyms

• frankincense

Anagrams

• balonium

English

Alternative forms

• thus, tus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (thúos, “burnt sacrifice”)

Noun

thuris (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) Frankincense obtained from conifers such as the Norway spruce, or long-leaved pine.

Related terms

• gum thus
• thurible

See also

• frankincense
• olibanum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?u?.ris/, [?t??u???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.ris/, [?t?u??is]

Noun

th?ris

1. genitive singular of th?s

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þurisaz. Cognate with Old High German duris (“demon”), Old English þyrs (“monster, demon, giant”), Old Norse þurs (“giant”).

Noun

thuris m

1. monster, demon, giant
2. The runic character ? (/?/ or /ð/).

Declension