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teter

  • noun [ masculine ]
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teter, tetr, es; m.
Tetter, a cutaneous disease
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  • Teter balsis, Txts. 43, 262: Wrt. Voc. ii. 10, 61: 125, 13:

    briensis,

    i.
      288, 5.

  • Teter, tetr inpetigo, Txts. 69, 1047:

    petigo,

      85, 1550.

  • Teter,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 68, 3.

  • Spryng vel tetr papula vel

    pustula,

      Txts. 88, 791.

  • Se hæfþ teter (impetiginem) on his líchoman, se hæfþ on his móde gítsunga . . . Bútan tweón se teter bútan sáre hé ofergǽþ ðone líchoman, and suá ðeáh ðæt lim geunwlitegaþ, Past. 11; Swt. 71, 15-17: Scint. 99, 10, On tetere

    inpetigine,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 27.

  • Wið sceb and wið teter,

      Lchdm. i. 150, 5: 234, 10.

  • Wið teter, of andwlitan tó dónne, 336, 3. The form tetra, perhaps influenced by lepra which precedes it, also occurs :-- Ðonne becymþ of ðám yflum wǽtum oððe sió hwíte riéfþo þe mon on súþerne

    lepra

    hǽt, oþðe tetra, oþþe heáfodhriéfðo, oððe óman,
      Lchdm. ii. 228, 13.
Etymology
[A tetere serpedo, Wrt. Voc. i. 267, col. 2 (15th cent.). Cf. O. H. Ger. zitaroh impetigo, scabies: Ger. zitteroch; zittermal tetter, ring-worm.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “teter.” 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/30397.

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