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sprota

noun, m., , 9 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 11.11.2010 06:58

Old-English: sprot, sprota,

Latin (Machine generated): LABRUSCAS, PALMITUM, SARMENTIS, SARMENTORUM, SARMENTORUM RAMORUM QUĘ DE UINEA EXCIDUNTUR,

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Meanings Last Update: 27.10.2008 08:59

  • A: plant-part
    -, shoot, Spross
  • A: plant-part
    -, twig, Zweig
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Comment Last Update: 08.09.2010 09:41

  • Comment on (A): -, shoot, Spross

    We have only recorded occurrences with botanical meaning; we omitted occurrences like ClSt C 663(WW 378,37): CLAUUS nægl oþþe sprota.

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Occurrences Last Update: 11.11.2010 06:58

  • AldVGo, 1650 SARMENTORUM RAMORUM QUĘ DE UINEA EXCIDUNTUR sprota
  • AldVNa, 1,1651 SARMENTORUM sprota
  • AldVNa, 1,2022 LABRUSCAS sprotu, sprancan
  • AldVNa, 1,3083 SARMENTORUM sprotena
  • AldVNa, 3,521 SARMENTORUM sprota
  • Go, 2984 SARMENTORUM sprotena
  • Go, 3409 SARMENTORUM sprota
  • Prud, 968 PALMITUM sprota
  • Prud, 979 SARMENTIS sprotum
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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.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Prud: Meritt, Herbert Dean. The Old English Prudentius Glosses at Boulogne-sur-Mer. Stanford studies in language and literature ; 16. Stanford: AMS P., 1967.
MS Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, 1650.
MS Hereford, Cathedral, P.i.17.
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Digby 146.
MS Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliotheque Municipale, 189.