Euchimia
From Simon Online
Euchimia bona habitudo .i. bene humorata.
Apparatus:
Euchimia B ef | Eukimia ACD
Translation:
Euchimia means to be in "a good state of health", i.e. "the state of humoral equilibrium".
Commentary:
ἐυχυμία /eukhymía/ (medic.) "healthy state of humours".
ἐυ /eu/ + χυμία /khymia/ < χυμός /khymós/ "juice, liquid; the bodily juices, taste". The Greek pronunciation in Simon's time would be */efkhimía/.
However Italians at that time would still pronounce ἐυ {/e+u/}, but Greek χ {/kh/} they would pronounce as /k/, a pronunciation reflected in the variant spelling eukimia.
Greek υ {/y/}, pronounced like French "u" or German "ü", had by now become /i/ in Greek and medieval Latin.
See also: Euchimos
WilfGunther 18:15, 23 July 2014 (BST)
