ele-grēofa

noun, m., n-decl., 2 occ.

Type: plant-product

Last Update: 09.05.2011 08:09

Old-English: elegreouena,

Latin (Machine generated): NAPTARUM,

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Reference Last Update: 22.11.2022 00:36

Meaning Last Update: 20.11.2008 08:37

  • A: plant-product
    -, tinder from residue of pressed olives, Brennstoff aus dem Rückstand gepresster Oliven
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Comment Last Update: 04.09.2009 13:59

  • Comment on (A): -, tinder from residue of pressed olives, Brennstoff aus dem Rückstand gepresster Oliven

    Cf. Meritt (1954,67f.); ClH hesitantly suggests "oil vessel?".

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Occurrences Last Update: 30.06.2009 15:45

  • AldVNa, 7,87 NAPTARUM elegreouena
  • AldVNa, 8,99 NAPTARUM elegreouena
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Research Literature

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.
ClH: Clark Hall, John Richard. A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 4th ed. MART 14. Cambridge: University Press, 1960.
DOE: Cameron, Angus, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette di Paolo Healey, et al. (eds.). Dictionary of Old English (A to G). CD-Rom. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies for the Dictionary of Old English Project, 2008.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Fact and Lore about Old English words. Stanford studies in language and literature. 13. New York: AMS P., 1954.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS London, British Library, Royal 5 E.xi.
MS London, British Library, Royal 6 A.vi..