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Wendel-sǽ

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Wendel-sǽ, (generally masc.)
the Mediterranean. In Alfred's Orosius the word is used to translate several Latin terms denoting the Mediterranean or parts of it
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  • Andlang Wendelsǽs (

    mare Nostrum, quod Magnum generaliter dicimus

    ),
      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 8, 12.
  • Wendelsǽ

    mare Nostrum,

      12, 14: 26, 28: 8, 23.
  • Óþ ðone Wendelsǽ,

      10, 36.
  • Se Wendelsǽ

    mare Magnum,

      24, 26.
  • On ðæm Wendelsǽ

    per totum Magnum pelagus,

      28, 24.
  • Seó ús fyrre Ispania, hyre is be westan gársecg, and be norðan Wendelsǽ

    Hispania ulterior habet a septentrione Oceanum, ab occasu Oceanum,

      24, 8.
  • Se Wendelsǽ ðe man hǽt Atriaticum,

      22, 14: 28, 9.
  • Andlang ðæs Wendelsǽs is Dalmatia on norðhealfe ðæs sǽs

    Dalmatia habet a meridie Adriaticum sinum,

      22, 12.
  • Hió hæfð be norðan ðone Wendelsæ, ðe man hǽt Adriaticum

    habet a septentrione mare Siculum vel potius Adriaticum,

      26, 7.
  • Se Wendelsǽ

    mare Tyrrhenum,

      8, 25: 28, 15: 24, 3.
  • Italia land belíð Wendelsǽ ymb eall útan búton westannorðan

    Italia habet ab Africo Tyrrhenum mare, a borea Adriaticum sinum,

      22, 18.
  • Be súðan Narbonense is se Wendelsæ (

    mare Gallicum

    ),
      22, 29, 20.
  • Wendelsǽ ðe man hǽt Libia Æthiopicum

    mare Libycum,

      26, 1.
  • Begeondan Wendelsǽ

    citra Pontum,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 24, 52.
  • Féng Carl tó allum ðam westríce behienan Wendelsǽ and begeondan ðisse sǽ,

      Chr. 885; Erl. 84, 11.
  • On án íglond út on ðære Wendelsǽ,

      Bt. 38, 1; Fox 194, 11.
  • Æt Wendelsǽ on stæðe (

    the Italian shore

    ),
      Elen. Kmbl. 462; El. 231.
  • On Wendelsǽ ðǽr Apollines dohtor wunode,

      Met. 26, 31: Salm. Kmbl. 406; Sal. 203.
  • [O. H. Ger. Wentil-séo oceanus. Cf. wendel-meri oceanus.]
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