different between samite vs zamite

samite

English

Etymology

From Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ???????? (hexámiton), from ?? (héx, six) + ????? (mítos, thread).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sæma?t/

Noun

samite (countable and uncountable, plural samites)

  1. A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
    • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
      And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.

Anagrams

  • Amesti, Maties, aimest, maiest, maties, misate, miseat, semita, tamise

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zamite

English

Etymology

Zamia +? -ite

Noun

zamite (plural zamites)

  1. (archaic) A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.

Anagrams

  • -tiazem, zaimet, ziamet

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