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Baðan

  • noun [ feminine ]
  • preposition
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Baðan, [dat. pl. of bæþ a bath, q. v.], Baðan-ceaster; g. -ceastre; acc. -ceastre, -ceaster; f.
The city of Bath, Somersetshire, so called from its baths; Bathoniæ urbs a balneis dicta, in agro Somersetensi
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  • Baðan, Baðon, Baðun, for Baðum, æt Baðum,

    • Cod. Dipl. 170; A.D. 796; Kmbl. i. 207, 5
      • ,

    at the Baths, or, as we now say, at Bath or Bath [v. æt, prep. I. 3, before names of places];

    apud balneas, vel apud Bathoniam, vel apud urbem Bathoniæ.

  • Æt Baðan,

    • Chr. 1106; Erl. 241, 1
      • .

  • On Baðan,

    • Th. Diplm. A.D. 1060; 379, 14: 436, 8
      • .

  • Æt Baðun,

    • Cod. Dipl. 354; A.D. 931; Kmbl. ii. 177, 7
      • .
  • In monasterio, quod situm est in civitate

    æt Baðun

    ,
    • Cod. Dipl. 193; A.D. 808; Kmbl. i. 237, 1
      • .
  • In illa famosa urbe, quæ nominatur calidum balneum,

    ðæt is æt ðæm hátum baðum,

    • Cod. Dipl. 290: A.D. 864; Kmbl. ii. 80, 8
      • .

  • Eádgár wæs to cyninge gehálgod on ðære ealdan byrig, Acemannes ceastre; eác, óðre worde, beornas Baðan nemnaþ

    Edgar was consecrated king in the old town, Akemansceaster; also, by another word, men name Bath,

    • Chr. 973; Th. 224, 22, col. 1
      • ;
    • Edg. 5
      • .

  • Genámon þreó ceastra,-Gleawan ceaster and Ciren-ceaster and Baðan-ceaster

    they took three cities,-Gloucester, Cirencester, and Bath,

    • Chr. 577; Erl. 18, 20
      • .
Similar entries
v. Ace-mannes burh.
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v.  Acemannes burh Hátabaðan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Baðan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/3020.

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