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Wintan-ceaster

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Wintan-ceaster, (Wintun-, Winta (-e, -i), Win-), e: Wænte, an; f.
Winchester. [The name is got from the earlier Venta of Roman Britain. This form occurs in Latin works, e. g. : In Venta civitate,
    Bd. 4, 15: Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 300, 16.
Monasterium in Wenta positum, vi. 29, 16. Also the adjective Wentanus (Uentanus, Bd. 5, 18), e. g. : Wentanus episcopus, v. 82, 14. Wentana ecclesia, ii. 210, 3 : v. 45, 3. Wentana civitas, ii. 140, 9: 220, 28. Urbs Wentana, iii. 326, 10: iv. 45, 7. Wentana sedes, v. 169, 16. And Wentana is used as the name of the place, e. g. : Wentanae monasterium, iii. 8, 13. But Latinized forms of the English word are used; Wintonia is often found in the charters; the form Wincestria occurs v. 167, 7, and the adjective Wintancestrensis 90, 29.]
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  • In ciuitate opinatissima quae Winteceaster nuncupatur,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 195, 35.

  • Belumpon hí (the South Saxons) ǽr tó Wintanceastre biscopscíre

    ad civitatis Ventanae parochiam pertinebant

    ,
      Bd. 5, 18; S. 639, 14.

  • Daniel Wæntan biscop,

      Chr. 731; Erl. 47, 11.

  • Intó Wintanceastre,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 114, 26: iii. 111, 29.

  • Gange án gemet swilce man on Lundenbyrig and on Wintanceastre (Winta-,

    v. l.

    ) healde,
      L. Edg. ii. 8; Th. i. 270, 2.

  • Seó gerǽdnys ðe Cnut cyningc gerǽdde on Wintanceastre (Win-,

    v. l.

    ),
      L. C. E. proem. ; Th. i. 358, 7.

  • Cénwalh hét átimbran ða ciricean on Wintunceastre (Wintan-,

    v. l.

    ),
      Chr. 643 ; Erl. 26, 9.

  • Hér Danihel gesæt on Wintanceastre,

      744; Erl. 48, 1.

  • Hedde heóld ðone biscopdóm on Wintaceastre (Wintan-,

    v. l.

    ),
      703; Erl. 42, 22.

  • Hí West-Seaxna bisceopum underþeódde wǽron, ða ðe on Wintaceastre wǽron,

      Bd. 4, 15 ; S. 583, 35.

  • Tó Wintaceastre (Winte-,

    v. l.

    ) .vi. myneteras,
      L. Ath. i. 14 ; Th. i. 206, 31 : Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 326, 16.
  • Winteceastre, ii. 176, 11: v. 163, 11.
  • Tó ealdan mynstære tó Winticeastræ, ii. 127, 12.

  • Syþþan ðæt gemót wæs on Winceastre,

      L. C. S. 30 ; Th. i. 392, 26.

  • Ðes Swíðún wæs bisceop on Winceastre,

      Homl. Skt. i. 21, 14.

  • Æðelwold biscop on Winceastre,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. vi. 207. 6.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “Wintan-ceaster.” 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/35936.

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