Associations to the word «Tammuz»

Wiktionary

TAMMUZ, proper noun. (Judaism) The tenth month of the civil year in the Jewish calendar, after Sivan and before Av.
TAMMUZ, proper noun. A Sumerian god of food and vegetation.

Dictionary definition

TAMMUZ, noun. The tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July).
TAMMUZ, noun. Sumerian and Babylonian god of pastures and vegetation; consort of Inanna.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats