foxes glofaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

foxes glōfa m

1. foxglove
   • c. 9th century, Bald's Leechbook, published in Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest (1865, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green), edited and with translations by Oswald Cockayne, volume I, page 266

     Wið oman, ġenim þysse wyrte lēaf þe man [s]trycnos manicos ⁊ oðrum naman foxes glōfa nemneþ...

     For inflammatory sores, take leaves of this plant, known as στρύχνος μανικός, also named with another name "foxglove"... [As Cockayne points out, this identification is incorrect.]

Inflection

派生した語

• Middle English: foxesglove, foxglove
  • English: foxglove

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “foxes glofa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.