fīc

noun, m., a-decl., 9 occ.

Type: plant-part

Last Update: 11.08.2011 08:21

Old-English: fic, fic-, fisc-, uic, fig, fices, fice, fica,

Latin (Machine generated): ARBOREM FICI, CARICARUM, FICI, FICOS, FICULNIA, FICUS, UICI,

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References Last Update: 22.11.2022 00:17

Meaning Last Update: 06.10.2009 09:27

  • A: plant-part: foreign
    Caricae fructus, fig, Feige
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Comment Last Update: 13.05.2011 08:34

  • Comment on (A): Caricae fructus, fig, Feige

    Identification based on L CARICA, i.e. 'Carican figs', which were mostly sold dried.

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Occurrences Last Update: 22.07.2009 05:59

  • AldVNa, 8,209 CARICARUM fica
  • C 92.2, Ker, Nr.371, a FICUS fic
  • Lk(Li), Cont. S.8,Z.3[1] FICI fic
  • Mt(Ru), 21,19 ARBOREM FICI treow fices
  • Mt(Ru), 21,19 FICULNIA fic
  • Mt(Ru), 21,20 FICULNIA fic
  • Mt(Ru), 21,21 FICULNIA fice
  • Mt(Ru), 24,32 UICI fices
  • Mt(Ru), 7,16 FICOS ficos ƀ nyte
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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.
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.
Li, Ru (= Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn): Skeat, Walter William. The Four Gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and Old Mercian Versions. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1871.
Ker, Neil Ripley. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. First published 1957. Re-issued. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Meritt, Herbert Dean. Old English Glosses. MLA General Series.16. Repr. New York: 1971.
MS London, British Library, Cotton Nero D.iv..
MS Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. D.2.19.
MS London, British Library, Royal 5 E.xi.
MS Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Nouv.Acq.Lat. 586.
Sauer, Hans. Patterns of loan-influence on the Medieval English plant names, with special reference to the influence of Greek. In: Foreign Influences on Medieval English, Eds. Jacek Fisiak, and Magdalana Bator. Studies in English medieval language and literature. 28. Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2011. 55-76.
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Cont.: STERILI ARBORE FICI unberendum trees fic.