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CLÁTE

  • noun [ feminine ]
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CLÁTE, an; f.
The herb CLOT-bur, a bur that sticks to clothes, burdock, goose-grass, clivers; philanthropos = φιλάνθρωπος , lappa, arctium lappa, galium aparine,
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  • Ðás wyrte man philanthropos nemneþ, ðæt ys on úre geþeóde menlufigende, forðý heó wyle hrædlíce to ðam men geclyfian: ða man eác óðrum naman cláte nemneþ

    that is in our language men-loving, because it will readily cleave to a man: it is also named by another name clivers, this herb is called philanthropes,

    • Herb. 174, 1
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 306, 2-5: Ælfc. Gl. 40
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    • Som. 63, 105
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    • Wrt. Voc. 30, 53: 41
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    • Som. 63, 108
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 30, 56: 66, 67
      • .

  • Cláte

    lappa,

    • Wrt. Voc. 67, 75: 79, 41: Ælfc. Gl. 40
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    • Som. 63, 91
      • ;
    • Wrt. Voc. 30, 41
      • .

  • Wið ceolan swile clátan wyl on ealaþ

    for swelling of throat boil burdock in ale,

    • L. M. 1, 12
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    • Lchdm. ii. 56, 3: I. 45
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    • Lchdm. ii. 110, 13: 2, 53
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    • Lchdm. ii. 274, 3
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  • Nim ða smalan clátan

    take the small burdock,

    • 1, 39
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    • Lchdm. ii. 100, 23
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  • Genim doccan oððe clátan, ða ðe swimman wolde

    take dock or clote, such as would swim,

    • 1, 50
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    • Lchdm. ii. 122, 22
      • .
Etymology
[
Wyc. clote, cloote:
Chauc. clote-lefe a leaf of the clot-bur:
Ger. M. H. Ger. klette. f:
O. H. Ger. kletta, kledda. f.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “CLÁTE.” 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/6293.

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