Middle English Dictionary Entry
īreos n.
Entry Info
| Forms | īreos n. Also ir(r)ios. |
| Etymology | ML yreos |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. iris.
1.
(a) The plant Florentine iris (Iris florentina); ?also, German iris (Iris germanica); -- used medicinally; emplastre of ~, a plaster made of the rhizome of the plant and other ingredients; (b) the rhizome of either species.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)25 : Yris purpureum florem (in modum azuri) gerit, yreos album. ]
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)88/20 : & þese medicyns ben sumwhat more driere: yrios [L yreos], aristologie rotunda, orabum, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)151b/a : Þat þe place be emplasterde wiþ picche oþer wiþ ane oyenoun grounden wiþ honye oþer wiþ þe rote of yreos, þe whiche is cleped flammula, grounden wiþ vyneger.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)64a/b : Yreos, i. gladen, þat haþ purpour floures.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)182b/a : Þe emplastre of yreos..Take of cowe talowe..oyle of rose..þe rote of yreos, [etc.].
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)164/10 : Ireos is an herbe þat men clepe fane; Þis herbe haȝt lewys lyk to þe flourdelys, and it haȝt a quyt flour.
- c1450 When the son (Frf 16)341 : Out of the nostrelis bawme dothe encense Soter then yreos, rosys, or encense.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)123b/b : Þe rote of yrrios poudrid, þis poudre corrodiþ deed fleisch.
b
- a1400 Mirfeld Sinonoma (Pmb-O 2)25 : Yri, i. radicis quæ yreos appellatur.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)178a/b : Ireos is a rote ca. & sic..it is resolutif, mundificatif, and incarnatyue.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. emplaster of ireos.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475 *Gilb.Angl.(Wel 537)119/30 : Take..of peusadanum, wormod, of eche, vii greynes; of yreos, xiii greynes and þe þirde parte of halfe an handful.
Note: Additional quote(s)
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 Diseases Women (2) (Trin-C R.14.52)529/1251 : For to delivere a womman of chield and for to sle it if it may nat be brought furth..take the juce of iroes, of bolis gall ana ʒ 4, of mete oile ʒ 2, medle al thiese toguyders and do it in a pissary an serve þe womman therwith.
Note: Glossary: "iroes 'Florentine iris; German iris (Iris florentina; Iris germanica)'."
Note: Additional quot., new form.