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Malus_sylvestris

apuldor, swēte

noun, f., , hapax legomenon

Type: plant

Last Update: 05.04.2011 10:37

References Last Update: 24.11.2022 15:14

Meaning Last Update: 19.11.2008 10:03

  • A: plant
    Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., crab-apple, Holzapfel
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Comment Last Update: 04.11.2011 11:04

  • Comment on (A): Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., crab-apple, Holzapfel

    Cf. Is. 17,7,5: MALOMELLUM, A DULCEDINE APPELLATA. The attribute swēte 'sweet' which is used to define →apuldor denotes a different, not identifyable subspecies or the taste of the tree's fruit, →æppel, swēte.

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Occurrence Last Update: 06.10.2010 13:39
  • AntK, 122,5 MALOMELLUS swete apulder
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Image Last Update: 05.04.2011 10:37

Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill., crab-apple, Holzapfel
Malus_sylvestris

Botanical-Information: stylised plate

Source: →reference-information

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Research Literature

AntK: Kindschi, Lowell. The Latin-Old English Glossaries in Planton-Moretus Manuscript 43 and British Museum Manuscript Additional 32,246. Unpubl. diss. Stanford University: 1955.
BW III: Bierbaumer, Peter. Der botanische Wortschatz des Altenglischen. Grazer Beiträge zur Englischen Philologie 3. Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Las Vegas: Lang, 1979.
Is: Isidorus Hispalensis. Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi Etymologiarum sive Originum Libri XX. Recogn. brevique adnot. crit. instruxit W. M. Lindsay. 1: Libros I - X continens. 2: Libros XI - XX continens. repr. 1911. (Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis) Oxonii: Typogr. Clarendoniano, 1966.
MS Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, 47.
MS London, British Library, Add. 32246.