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mitta

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
mitta, an; m.
A measure, both dry and liquid, as for corn, meal, ale, honey; according to one passage it seems equal to two 'ambers'
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  • Under mittan

    sub modio,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 85, 9: Hpt. Gl. 505, 4.
  • Under mitte (mytte, Rush),

    • Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 5, 15.
  • Mitta,

    • Mk. Skt. 4, 21: mitto, Lk. Skt. Lind. 11, 33.
  • Sellemon xxx ombra gódes Welesces aloþ, ðet limpaþ tó xv mittan, and mittan fulne huniges, oððe twegen wínes,

    • Chart. Th. 460, 22-28.
  • Mittan

    bata,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 11, 52:

    chori,

    • 15, 82.
  • His bigleofa wæs ǽlce dæg þrittig mittan clǽnes melowes and sixtig mittan óðres melowes

    'Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal' (1 Kings 4, 22),

    • Homl. Th. ii. 576, 31-32.
  • Hund mittena

    centum choros,

    • Lk. Skt. 16, 7.
  • Wíf gehýdeþ in meolo mitto þrió

    mulier abscondit in farinae sata tria,

    • Lind. 13, 21.
Etymology
[Cf.
Goth. mitaþs, mitaþjó a measure
:
O. H. Ger. mezzo
:
Ger. metze
.]
Similar entries
v. an- (on-), cyric-, hand-mitta.
Linked entries
v.  an-mitta.
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  • mitta, n.