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winter

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
winter, es; m. (in pl. a neuter form wintru occurs, as well as masculine wintras, winter: the dat. sing. wintra is a trace of earlier u
Wright's OE grammar
§96; §219; §263; §397; §563;
-stem declension).
a season of the year,
winter
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  • Feówer tída syndon getealde on ánum geáre, ðæt synd

    uer, aestas, autumnus, hiems. . . Hiems

    is winter,
      Lchdm. iii. 250, 12.
  • On ðone .vii. dæg ðæs mónðes (

    November

    ) bið wintres fruma ; se winter hafaþ tú and hundnigontig daga,
      Shrn. 146, 7.
  • Winter bringeþ weder ungemetceald, swifte windas,

      Met. 11, 59.
  • Winter bið cealdost,

      Menol. Fox 470; Gn. C. 5.
  • Hengest wælfágne winter wunode mid Finne . . . Holm storme weól, winter ýþe beleác ísgebinde, óþ ðæt óþer com geár in geardas . . . Ðá wæs winter scacen, fæger foldan bearm,

      Beo. Th. 2259-2278 ; B. 1127-1137.
  • Ðæt hit wǽre wintres tíd, and se winter wǽre grim and ceald and fyrstig and mid íse gebunden,

      Bd. 3, 19; S. 549, 26.
  • Is ðǽr nú irfæs ðæs ðæs stranga wintær lǽfæd hæfð,

      Chart. Th. 163, 1.
  • Nys hit swá stearc winter ðæt ic durre lutian æt hám,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 19, 17.
  • Sam hit sý sumor sam winter,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 21, 17.
  • Wintres

    brumae

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 12, 43.
  • On wintres tíman, ðæt is fram ðan anginne ðæs mónðes, ðe is November gehaten, óþ Eástran,

      R. Ben. 32, 10.
  • Siððan (

    after the first of November) wintres dæg (winter; cf. Icel. á vetrardag in the winter )

    wíde gangeþ on syx nihtum, sigelbeorhtne genimð hærfest mid herige hrímes and snáwes,
      Menol. Fox 401; Men. 202.
  • Hé (

    petra oleum

    ) is gód tó drincanne on wintres dæge, for ðon ðe hé hæfð swíðe micle hǽte; for ðý hine mon sceal drincan on wintra,
      Lchdm. ii. 288, 16.
  • Beámas gréne stondaþ wintres and sumeres,

      Exon. Th. 200, 7; Ph. 37.
  • Mid ðý storme ðæs wintres

    hiemis tempestate

    ,
      Bd. 2, 13; S. 516, 20.
  • Geofon weól wintres wylme,

      Beo. Th. 1036; B. 516.
  • Wintres wóma,

      Exon. Th. 292, 22 ; Wand. 103.
  • Biddaþ ðæt eówer fleám on wintra (wintre,

      Rush.) ne gewurðe, Mt. Kmbl. 24, 20.
  • On wintra hit biþ ceald,

      Bt. 21; Fox 74, 24.
  • Se oftrǽda rén leccaþ ða eorþan on wintra,

      39, 13; Fox 234, 17.
  • Wíciaþ Finnas on huntoðe on wintra, and on sumera on fiscaþe,

      Ors. 1, 1; Swt. 17, 6.
  • Hí (

    the hawks

    ) fédaþ hig sylfe and mé on wintra,
      Coll. Monast. Th. 26, 1.
  • Beád Swegen full gild and metsunga tó his here ðone winter,

      Chr. 1013 ; Erl. 149, 3: Exon. Th. 306, 29 ; Seef. 15.
  • Wintras

    hiemes, Germ. 388, 26. See also midd, II. I a. wintry weather, cold :-- Hé (the sparrow )

    sóna of wintra in winter eft cymeþ,
      Bd. 2, 13 ; S. 516, 21.
  • Hé him helle gescóp, wælcealde wíc, wintre beðeahte,

      Salm. Kmbl. 938; Sal. 468.
  • Se wind (

    zephirus

    ) tówyrpð and ðáwaþ ǽlcne winter,
      Lchdm. iii. 274, 22.
a year
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  • Beóð his winter wynnum íced

    annos ejus in diem seculi adjicies,

      Ps. Th. 60, 5.
  • Úre winter

    anni nostri

    ,
      89, 10.
  • God ána wát hwæt him weaxendum winter bringaþ,

      Exon. Th. 327, 26; Vy. 9.
  • Hí wǽron on Egipta lande feówer hund wintra and þrítig wintra,

      Ex. 12, 40.
  • Ymb þrittig wintra,

      Bt. 39, 3; Fox 214, 25.
  • Hú seó ádl ǽr feówertigum oððe fíftigum wintra on men ne becume

    how the disease does not attack a man before he is forty or fifty,

      Lchdm. ii. 284, 10, 20.
  • Ne mæg weorþan wís wer ǽr hé áge wintra dǽl in woruldríce,

      Exon. Th. 290, 14; Wand. 65.
  • Hé wintra hæfde fíf and hundteóntig,

      Cd. Th. 69, 4; Gen. 1130: 74, 32; Gen. 1231.
  • Wintra fela . . . geára mengeo,

      103, 26; Gen. 1724.
  • Twelf wintra tíd,

      Beo. Th. 296; B. 147.
  • Ðæt swá fyrn gewearð wintra gangum,

      Elen. Kmbl. 1262; El. 633.
  • Wintra gerímes þreó and þrítig geára,

      Cd. Th. 296, 15; Sat. 502: Chr. 1065; Erl. 196, 26.
  • Ic eom gomel wintrum,

      Ps. Th. 70, 16.
  • Wintrum fród,

      Beo. Th. 3452; B. 1724.
  • Wintrum yldre,

      Cd. Th. 158, 2; Gen. 2611.
  • Wintrum geong,

      174, 34; Gen. 2888: Byrht. Th. 137, 62; By. 210.
  • Ðæt wíf on blódryne twelf winter (wintra twelfe, Rush.: wintrum twoelfum, Lind.,

    annis duodecim

    ) wæs,
      Mk. Skt. 5, 25.
  • Hí besǽtan ða burg .x. winter (

    per decem annos

    ),
      Ors. 1, 14; Swt. 56, 19.
  • Hé geheóld ríce fíftig wintru,

      Beo. Th. 4424; B. 2209.
  • Siððan hé strýnde seofon winter suna and dohtra,

      Cd. Th. 69, 21; Gen. 1139. II a.
  • Wine fród wintres,

      Cd. Th. 72, 29; Gen. 1194.
Etymology
[Goth. wintrus; m. winter; a year; O. Sax. O. H. Ger. wintar; m.: O. Frs. winter; m.: Icel. vetr; m.]
Similar entries
v. mid-, midde-winter; -wintre.
Linked entries
v.  ǽ-wintre-cyning -wintre.
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