Middle English Dictionary Entry
antartik adj. & n.
Entry Info
| Forms | antartik adj. & n. Also ant(h)artike, (Latinate) antarticus, (?error) antraticus. |
| Etymology | ML |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) (pol) antartik, the south pole of the heavens or the earth; also, the star marking its position (see south sterre); paralellus antarticus, the antarctic circle; (b) the southern half of the sky or the earth; (c) southern (dialect of English).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)105b/a : Aristotel..clepiþ þise poles tweye sterres..þe on..hatte polus articus & þat oþir..polus antarticus.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)108a/a : An oþir cercle þat hatte paralellus is antraticus [?read: antarticus] also & is in þe souþ a forn þe norþ cercle þat hatte paralellus articus.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)117b/b : Twey polis þere ben; þat on hatte articus, a north sterre..The oþir pole hatte antarticus to þe southe, þe reyn sterre.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)135a/b : Þe souþ sterre þat hatte polus antarticus.
- c1400 *Chaucer Astr.(Brussels 4869)[2.25] 90b : Thanne is the pool antartik bynethe the orizonte.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)119/27 : The sterre Transmontane..þat wee clepen the lodesterre..anoþer sterre, the contrarie to him, þat is toward the south, þat is clept Antartyk.
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)121/15 : Þei þat ben toward the antartyk, þei ben streght feel aȝen feel of hem þat dwellen vnder the Transmontane.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.94 : Summe duellid vndir the pool Artyk..Othir vndir the pool Antartik.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)308 : The poole artyk and the poole antartyk.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)31 : [The wise men of Egypt] knew þe kynd & þe curses of þe clere sternys, Of Articus..And Antarticus..þat all apon turnys.
b
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)90/24 : Halfe þe firmament contenez bot nyne score degreez, of whilk I hafe sene lxii degreez of Artyk and ten mynutes, and of Antartyk toward þe south I hafe sene xxxiii degreez and xvi mynutes.
c
- a1475(a1447) Bokenham MAngl.(Hrl 4011)31/7 : The Meerces, þe which byn clepid mydlonde ynglyssh..bettir vndirstondyn þe collateralle tounges, bothe the artyke þe which is þe northe, & þe antartyke þe which is þe sowthe.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)2.163 : The langages collateralle, arthike and anthartike [Trev.: norþerne and souþerne].