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calament

/ka.la.mɑ̃/

noun, masculine/ka.la.mɑ̃/plural: calaments

calamint (of the genera Acinos or Calamintha)

Inherited from Old French calament~calamente, borrowed from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthe, from Ancient Greek καλαμίνθη (kalamínthē, “an odoriferous plant”), of uncertain origin (either by haplology from *καλαμο-μίνθη (*kalamo-mínthē) or a loanword, which Beekes considers most likely to be from Pre-Greek). First attested in the twelfth century.