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spranca

noun, m., , 7 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 11.11.2010 06:54

Old-English: spracnc,

Latin (Machine generated): LABRUSCAS, LOETIFERAS ... LABRUSCAS MORTIFERAS, PLANTE, SARMENTORUM .I. UIMINUM, SARMENTORUM UINEARUM, STIRPS, SURCULUS UEL UIRGULTUM,

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Meanings Last Update: 27.10.2008 08:56

  • A: plant-part
    -, shoot, Spross
  • A: plant-part
    -, twig, Zweig
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Occurrences Last Update: 11.11.2010 06:54

  • AldVGo, 1989 LOETIFERAS ... LABRUSCAS MORTIFERAS deadbære sprancan
  • AldVGo, 2560[1] SARMENTORUM UINEARUM wi, spranca
  • AldVNa, 1,2022 LABRUSCAS sprotu, sprancan
  • AldVNa, 1,2640 SARMENTORUM .I. UIMINUM wi[2] sprancena
  • AntK, 121,22[3] SURCULUS UEL UIRGULTUM spranca
  • AntK, 127, 21 STIRPS styb UEL spranca
  • AntK, 144,11[4] PLANTE treowes sprancan
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Research Literature

AldVGo: Goossens, Louis. The Old English Glosses of 'MS. Brussels, Royal Library 1650'. (Aldhelm's De Laudibus Virginitatis) Edited with an introduction, notes and indexes. Klasse der Letteren. Verhandelingen. 36,74. Brussels: Paleis der Academien, 1974.
AldVNa: Napier, Arthur Sampson. Old English Glosses. Anecdota Oxoniensia, Mediaeval and Modern Series. 11. Reprint of Oxford, Clarendon Press 1900. Hildesheim: Olms, 1969.
AntK: Kindschi, Lowell. The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.
[1]:

N. "Wi for wi[n-boga] (= UINEARUM)?" Gossens" note "sprance N sprancena" seems to indicate that spranca is a printing error and should read sprance.

[2]:

N.:" wi (om.H) for wi[nboga]?"

[3]:

N.: "J, sprauta. Spranca is the correct form. WW SIRCULUS."

[4]:

Cf. Is. 17,6,12: PLANTAE SUNT DE ARBORIBUS; PLANTARIA VERO, QUAE EX SEMINIBUS NATA SUNT; also cf. the preceding gloss AntK 144,10: PLANTARIA gesawena plantan.