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Etymology of cannabis
The plant name ''Cannabis'' is from Latin ''ラテン語:cannabis'', which is from Greek (').〔"cannabis". OED Online. July 2009. Oxford University Press. 2009.〕 The Greek word was a transcription of the Scythian or Thracian word,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Online Etymology Dictionary )〕 also loaned into Persian as '. English ''hemp'' (Old English ') may be an early loan (predating Grimm's Law) from the same Scythian source.
==Word history==
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records the earliest usages of ''cannabis'' meaning the plant "common hemp, ''Cannabis sativa''" in 1548 and meaning parts of the plant "smoked, chewed, or drunk for their intoxicating or hallucinogenic properties" in 1848.〔''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2009, 2nd ed., v. 4.0, Oxford University Press. This 1548 usage was in William Turner's ''The names of herbes'', "Canabis is called in Englishe Hemp."〕 The ''OED'' traces the etymology to the New Latin botanical term ''cannabis'' – proposed in 1728 and standardized in Carolus Linnaeus's (1753) ''Species Plantarum'' – from an earlier Latin ''cannabis'', coming from Greek ''kánnabis''.
Ancient Greek ''kánnabis'' transcribed a Scythian term in the earliest (c. 440 BCE) reference to recreational cannabis usage. Herodotus recorded cannabis steam baths in ''The Histories''. "The Scythians, as I said, take some of this hemp-seed (flowers ), and, creeping under the felt coverings, throw it upon the red-hot stones; immediately it smokes, and gives out such a vapour as no Grecian vapour-bath can exceed; the Scyths, delighted, shout for joy."〔 4.75〕
The historian and linguist Douglas Harper gives an etymology of English ''cannabis'' from Greek ''kannabis'', from a Scythian or Thracian word, which is also the source for English ''canvas'' (viz., hempen fabric) and possibly ''hemp''.
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