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lyb-corn

noun, n., a-decl., 33 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 18.07.2011 07:27

Old-English: libbcorn, libcorn, lybbcorn, lybcorn, lypbcorn,

Latin (Machine generated): CARTAMO, CARTAMUS, CARTOMO, CATARTICUM POTUS, CHARTAMO, CIRTAMO, CITOCATIA, LACTIRIAS UEL LACTIRIDA, LATTYRIDE, TITUMALOSCA CALATIDES, TYTYMALOSCA,

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Reference Last Update: 18.10.2022 16:25

Meanings Last Update: 17.02.2010 12:27

  • A: plant-part: native Doubtfully native (cf. Clapham 1962,537).
    Euphorbiae fructus, caper spurge fruit, Kreuzblättrige Wolfsmilch, Frucht der ~
  • B: plant-part: foreign
    ? Ricini fructus, castor oil plant, seed of the ~, Rizinusbaum, Frucht des ~
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Comments Last Update: 18.07.2011 07:26

  • Comment on (A): Euphorbiae fructus, caper spurge fruit, Kreuzblättrige Wolfsmilch, Frucht der ~

    Cf. LA 184/13: lib 'medicine, drug; Medizin, Heilmittel'. The occurences, where a gpl is recorded, refer to the fruits of the plant which were common laxatives (4-8 corns cause vomiting, dysentry along with abdominal pain; cf. Hegi 1906,V,147); in the recipes the quantitiy is minutely recorded: the numbers of seed corns range between 15 and 100. Either the name refers to purgative fruits of other plants too (Cocayne also suggests seeds of gourd; 1961,II,397) or possibly the remedies were prepared ahead? CITOCATIA cf. s.v. →giþ-corn. The L lemmata CARTAMO, CARTAMUS, CARTOMO are hardly identical with Gk κάρδαμον 'nasturtium' as suggested by Pheifer (cf. 1974,n.279) but with CARTAMUS, Carthamus tinctorius L., dyer's saffron, Färgber-Saflor (Marzell 2000,1,855).[1] The gloss need not be based on the purgative effect of the plant but could also result in a confusion with CATHARTICUS or a similar plant name.

    Etymology: cf. Lindheim's note on Dur 104: "Ae. lybb 'Gift, Zauber, Lab' stellt sich zu ne. lib, as. lubbi, ahd. luppi, got. lubja-, aisl. lyf 'Heilkraut'." Also cf. the numerous compounds with OE lyb(b) collected by Jente (1921,302ff).

  • Comment on (B): ? Ricini fructus, castor oil plant, seed of the ~, Rizinusbaum, Frucht des ~

    Grattan / Singer's identification (1952,117), who relate the passage in LA to Dioscorides. Bonser (1963,303) prefers it over Cockayne's suggestion (1961,II,397); also cf. Hagen (1995,184); Pettit (2001,II, XLIII,179) refutes it. The question concerning the quantity of the ingredient also applies here: these seeds are highly toxic even in small quantities (cf. Grieve, s.v. castor-oil plant).

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Occurrences Last Update: 22.11.2010 06:52

  • Br,WW, 296,9 CATARTICUM POTUS libbcorn
  • Br,WW, 298,13 LATTYRIDE libcorn
  • Br,WW, 300,17 TYTYMALOSCA libcorn
  • ClQu, 40,8 CARTAMO lybcorn
  • ClSt, C 70 CARTOMO lybcorn
  • ClSt, L 346[2] LATTYRIDE lybcorn
  • Cp, 450(C 265) CARTAMO lybcorn
  • Cp, 474(C 371) CHARTAMO lybcorn
  • D 11, Junius 77, S 210 CARTAMUS lybcorn
  • D 25, f.145r, col.2/4 CIRTAMO libcorn
  • Dur, 104 CATARTICUM POTUS lybbcorn
  • Dur, 122 CITOCATIA libbcorn
  • Dur, 141 CHARTAMO lybbcorn
  • Dur, 210 LACTIRIAS UEL LACTIRIDA gythcorn UEL libcorn
  • Dur, 325 TITUMALOSCA CALATIDES[3] ID EST LACTERIDAS libcorn
  • Erf, 279 CARTAMO lypbcorn
  • HlOl, C 526 CATARTICUM POTUS lybcorn
  • LA, 116/6 gpl lybcorna
  • LA, 118/11 gpl libcorna
  • LA, 118/13 gpl lybcorna
  • LA, 118/4 gpl lybcorna
  • Laud, 276 CARTAMO lybcorn
  • LB, 102/26 gsg lybcornes
  • LB, 102/30 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 102/37 gsg lybcornes
  • LB, 108/26 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 12/37 nasg lybcorn
  • LB, 41/37 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 81/1f gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 81/23 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 81/27 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 81/38 gpl lybcorna
  • LB, 82/1[4] gpl lybcorna
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Etymology Last Update: 18.07.2011 07:27

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Research Literature

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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.
ClQu: Quinn, John Joseph. The Minor Latin-Old English Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Diss Stanford U. 1956.
ClSt: Stryker, William Garlington. The Latin-Old English Glossary in MS Cotton Cleopatra A III. Unpubl. diss. Stanford Univ.: 1952.
Cp: Hessels, John Henry. An Eighth-Century Latin Anglo-Saxon Glossary. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1890.
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Dur: Lindheim, B. von. Das Durhamer Pflanzenglossar. Beiträge zur englischen Philologie. 35. Bochum-Langendreer: Pöppinghaus, 1941.
Ep, Erf: Pheifer, J.D. (ed.). Old English Glosses in the Epinal-Erfurt Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
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[1]:

Cf. note on Dur 141.

[2]:

N.: "Read LATHYRIDE (LATHYRIS)."

[3]:

Cf. HA CX: wyrt þe man titymallos calatites 7 oþrum naman lacteridan nemneþ; CALATITES = ? GALATITIS (to Gk γαλακτίς, "Wolfsmilch"; cf. André, s.v. GALATITA), but hardly Gk καρυίτης‚ "nut shaped, nußförmig" as Lindheim (n.325) suggests.

[4]:

MS: cybcorna.