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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Flavia Cecchi and first published on 02/07/2016.

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Theodotus is a grammarian¹ of unknown date, and his name is attested, in different forms, in the tradition of the Etymologica² and the Lexicon³ of pseudo-Zonaras⁴ regarding the etymology of the term ὀρίγανον; he derives this word from ῥιγῶ (“to be cold”) by antiphrasis (o…