Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

betonice

  • noun [ feminine ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
betonice, an; f : also Lat. betonĭca, æ; f.
The herb BETONY; betonĭca officinālis. This species is the common wood-betony, the betonĭca officinālis of Linnæus. It is a species of the genus Stachys, but it was formerly a species of the genus Betonica. It is very plentiful in Great Britain, and formerly much used in medicine. The leaves have a rough bitter taste, and are slightly aromatic. The roots are nauseous and very bitter, and when taken act as purgatives and emetics
Show examples

  • Genim betonican gódne dǽl

    take a good deal of betony,

      Lchdm. iii. 22, 16.

  • Nim betonican sǽd

    take seed of betony,

    iii.
      72, 6.

  • Wyl on ealaþ betonican

    boil betony in ale,

      L. M. 1, 16; Lchdm. ii. 58, 24.

  • Wyrc betonican and pipores seofon and xx corna tosomne getrifulad work betony and twenty-seven corns of pepper triturated together, 1, 21; Lchdm. ii. 64, 6 : 1, 22; Lchdm. ii. 64, 16. Latin, Betonĭca, æ; f Ðis is seó gréne sealf, - betonĭca, rude, etc.

    this is the green salve, - betony, rue, etc.

      Lchdm. iii. 6, 8.

  • Genim ðás ylcan wyrte and betonĭcam

    take this same wort and betony,

      Herb. 135, 3; Lchdm. i. 252, 4.
Etymology
[Betonĭca, quæ et Vettonĭca dicitur, quod eam Vettones = Oύέττoνεs, in Hispania invenerunt, Plin. 25, 8 : Prior 20.]
Linked entries
v.  betoce bettonice.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “betonice.” 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/4085.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • betonice, n.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.