Cachochimia
Cachochimia grece plenitudo malorum humorum a cacon quod est malum et chimus humor kakochimon exponitur in libro de doctrina greca malis humoribus laborans corpus.
Apparatus:
Cachochimia AC | Chachochimia B | Cachocimia e
cacon AC | cachon B | chacon e
kakochimon ABC | cacochimon e
Translation:
Cachochimia is a Greek word meaning 'a large amount of bad homours', from cacon meaning 'bad' and chimus meaning 'juice, humour'. Kakochimon is explained in the liber de doctrina greca as a 'body suffering from bad humours’.
Commentary:
κακοχυμία /kakokhymía/ means "an unhealthy state of the humours; unwholesomeness". The word occurs in Galen and Dioscorides. It is a compound noun made up of κακός /kakós/ "bad" + χυμός /khymós/ "(plant) juice; (animal) humours; flavour".
cacon is κακόν /kakón/, the neuter form of κακός /kakós/ "bad".
See also: Kakochimos
