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lǽrestre

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
lǽrestre, an; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§603;
A female teacher, an instructress, preceptress
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  • Lǽrestre

    doctrix,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 9, 64
    • ;
    • Zup. 71, 8
    • .
  • Siððan clypode heó hire tó ða ylcan lǽrestran,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 543, 8
    • .
Etymology
[
Cf. Wick. lerere
:
Prompt. Parv. lerare doctor, instructor
:
Goth. laisareis
:
O. H. Ger. lérari
:
Ger. lehrer
;
but the form to which these point, and which would be a masculine corresponding to lǽrestre, seems not to occur, the usual word being láreów.
]
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  • lǽrestre, n.