Middle English Dictionary Entry
gernet(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | gernet(e n. Also gernate, gernade & garnet(te, garnate, garnade & granate. |
| Etymology | OF grenade, grenete, gernate, garnate & ML grānātum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The fruit pomegranate; appel ~, ~ appel; (b) the shrub or tree that bears pomegranates (Punica granatum); (c) a dish made with pomegranates.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Susan.(Vrn)95 : Grapes and garnettes, gayliche þei grewe.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)210a/a : Hete and druyenesse of such dunge abateþ superfluyte of water in granates.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)57/17 : In þe whiche ben soden balaustie, gallis & þe ryndis of some garnadis [Add: garnettys; L granatorum].
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1044 : Þay borgounez and beres..þe fayrest fryt þat may on folde growe, As orenge..and apple garnade.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)71b/a : Gif þe pacient drynke with braynez of hennez rosted with water of granatez [*Ch.(2): water of pome garnettes; L aqua granatorum].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)137a/a : Al egre þingez & acetose ar gode to hem, as granatez [*Ch.(2): pome garnates; L granata], orenges, & acete.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)46b/b : Medled wiþ galles and wiþ þe ryndes of garnates.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)118b/b : Melouns soden..with þe wyne of garnates [L granatorum vino].
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4724 : Þai ware fedd..Of grapis & of gernets.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5238 : Growand full of gernetts & gracious frutes.
- c1450(?a1422) *Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)3.741 : Lyche the frute that is of suche pleasaunce, The garnet apull, of colour golden hewed.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178b/b : Psidia is þe rynde of þe fruyte of granatez [L fructus granati].
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)74/9 : Be þer done suffumigacion or fomentacion..of the rynde of pome-granate þat is called psidia, and of þe flourez of granate, þat ar called balaustia.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)176a/a : Colde herbes..þe floure of garnates [*Ch.(1): balaustia].
- c1450 When the son (Frf 16)29 : Cedres were, of lyban and of Inde..Datrees, gernadez, euer blowyng orengys, Brasyl almaunders euen sette yn rengys.
c
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)465 : Garnade for x Mees: Take the mylk of lyve li. of almondes..and take rys and..alay the rys with joyse of pomegarnetes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Deleted pomes gernetes under (a) along with first quot. under (a)--JL