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§383; §563;
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  • Hǽto

    calor.

      Wrt. Voc. i. 291, 11.
the quality or
property of being hot
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  • On

    ðǽre sunnan is hǽtu and beorhtnys; seó hǽtu drýgð,
      Hml. Th. i. 284, 35.

  • Þǽre sunnan hǽtu wyrcð fíf dǽlas on middanearde,

      Lch. iii. 260, 18 : Ph. 17.

  • Hǽto,

      Bl. H. 51, 21.

  • Fýres hǽto,

      Dan. 262.

  • Swíðe sweartes líchaman heó wæs for þǽre sunnan hǽto,

      Hml. S. 23 b, 176.

  • From haeto (

    calore

    ) his,
      Ps. Srt. 18, 7.

  • Þæs folces wæs fela forworden ǽgðer ge for þurste ge for hǽte (

    ardore solis

    ),
      Ors. 6, 31; S. 286, 21.
heat as an element in all bodies
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  • Geðweorod sint . . . cele wið hǽto, wǽt wið drýgum,

      Met. 20, 73.

  • Se cyle wið ðá hǽto and ꝥ wǽt wið ðám drýgum,

      Bt. 33, 4; F. 128, 33: Met. 20, 113: 29, 50.
a hot condition of the atmosphere, hot weather
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  • Ðeostru and léht, cele and haetu (

    caumas

    ),
      Ps. Srt. ii. p. 197, 32.

  • Hý hit ne magon eall gebúgian, sum for hǽto, sum for cyle,

      Bt. 18, 1; F. 62, 10.

  • Ǽlc wiht mæg bet wyð cyle þonne wið hǽte (

    omnia animantia patientius ad summum frigoris quam ad summum caloris accedant

    ),
      Ors. 1,1; S. 24, 30.

  • Feáwe men mehten beón eardfæste . . . for þǽre hǽte and for þǽm stence . . . ge ealle þá fiscas ácwę́lan for þǽre hǽte,

      5, 4; S. 226, 2-7.

  • Ic drífe sceáp míne tó heora lǽse, and stande ofer hig on hǽte (

    aestu

    ) and on cyle,
      Coll. M. 20, 13.
of sexual passion
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  • Seó gecyndelice hǽtu þurh ꝥ mægen þæs Hálgan Gástes gestilleþ on þé (

    the Virgin Mary

    ),
      Bl. H. 7, 27.
great warmth of feeling, fervour
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  • Se rehtgeleáfa mid haetu (calore )

    walle,
      Ps. Srt. ii. p. 201, 17.
  • v. lencten-, sumer-hǽtu hǽte.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hǽtu.” 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/51597.

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