Lithospermum_officinale

sunnan-corn

noun, n., a-decl., 3 occ.

Type: plant

Last Update: 25.08.2011 10:43

Old-English: suncorn, sundcorn, sunnancorn,

Latin (Machine generated): LITOSPERIMON, LITUSPERMON .I. SAXIFRAGA,

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Reference Last Update: 26.12.2022 19:37

Meaning Last Update: 20.09.2010 13:48

  • A: plant: native
    Lithospermum officinale L., common gromwell, Echter Steinsame
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Comment Last Update: 25.08.2011 10:39

  • Comment on (A): Lithospermum officinale L., common gromwell, Echter Steinsame

    The source is Dioskorides III,158, where L. officinale is described (Berendes 1902,355). Sunnancorn is a loan translation of L GRANUM SOLIS; cf. Marzell (2000,II,1345): "sunnencorn (13.Jh.) 'GRANA SOLIS, MILIUM SOLIS' ahd.Gl. 3,541,65 [...] Verderbt (bzw. verschrieben) sunnenhorn (14. Jh.) 'GRANA SOLIS' ebd. 3,529, 44." L MILIUM SOLIS = 'sun millet, Sonnenhirse'; 'sun-, Sonnen-' refers to the plants shiny white seeds (cf. Marzell, ibid.).

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Occurrences Last Update: 24.11.2010 06:47

  • D 2, Meritt 67, 2 LITUSPERMON .I. SAXIFRAGA sundcorn[1]
  • HA, CLXXX, 314/19 asg þe man LITOSPERMON 7 oþrum naman [sunnancorn][2] nemneþ
  • Laud, 897 LITOSPERIMON suncorn
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Image Last Update: 25.08.2011 10:43

Lithospermum officinale L., common gromwell, Echter Steinsame

Lithospermum_officinale

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

Krauss, Johann Carl. Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met dervelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen. 3. deel. Amsterdam: J. C. Sepp en Zoon, 1796.

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Research Literature

BW II: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 2. Bern, Frankfurt am Main, München: Lang, 1976.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
HA: Cockayne, Oswald Thomas (ed.). "Herbarium Apuleii Platonici." In: Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England. Being a Collection of Documents, for the Most Part never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Sience in this Country before the Norman Conquest. Vol. 1. Rev. Ed. by Charles Singer. London: Holland Press, 1961. 1-325.
Laud: Stracke, J. Richard (ed.). The Laud Herbal Glossary. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
Berberich, Hugo, ed. Das Herbarium Apuleii nach einer früh-mittelenglischen Fassung. Anglistische Forschungen 5. Nachdruck Amsterdam, 1966. Heidelberg: Winter, 1902.
D'Aronco, Maria Amalia and M. L. Cameron, eds.. The Old English Illustrated Pharmacopoeia: British Library Cotton Vitellius C.III. Early English Manuscripts in Faksimile 27. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1998.
DeVriend, Hubert Jan (ed.). The 'Old English Herbarium' and 'Medicina de Quadrupedibus'. Early English Text Society. Original series 286. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Hilbelink, A.J.G. (ed.). Cotton MS Vitellius C III of the Herbarium Apuleii. Diss. Amsterdam: 1930.
Howald, Ernestus und Henricus Sigerist (eds.). Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Bd.4. Antonii Musae de Herba Vettonica Liber. Pseudoapulei Herbarius. Anonymi de Taxone Liber. Sexti Placiti Liber Medicinae ex Animalibus etc. Leipzig: Teubner, 1927.
Hunger, Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias (ed.). The Herbal of Pseudo-Apuleius. From the ninth-century manuscript in the abbey of Monte Cassino [Codex Casinen-sis 97] together with the first printed edition of Jon. Phil. de Lignamine [Editio princeps Romae 1481] both in facsimile, described and annotated by F.W.T. Hunger. Leyden: Brill, 1935.
Krischke, Ulrike. "On the semantics of Old English compound plant names: motivations and associations." In: Old Names – New Growth: Proceedings of the 2nd ASPNS Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007, and Related Essays. Eds. Peter Bierbaumer and Helmut W. Klug. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2009. 211-278.
MS London, British Library, Harley 585.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C iii.
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[1]:

Cf. s.v. sund-corn.

[2]:

Cf. s.v. sund-corn, and Cockayne (1961,II,407).