Middle English Dictionary Entry
lapacia n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lapacia n. Also lapacium, lapasium. |
| Etymology | ML lap(p)acium; cp. CL lapathum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Any of certain docks or dock-like plants; ~ the gret [?cp. ML lappacium maius], ?water dock (Rumex aquaticus) or?burdock (Arctium lappa).
Associated quotations
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)99a/b : He schal be anoynt wiþ þe juse of ebuly, Sambucy, lapacij, fumitere, and oþer suche. ]
- [ a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)214/2 : Þat same medicyn schal purge humours þat be brent, as fumus terre, cuscute, lappacium acutum, cene, absinthium & oþere mo. ]
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1375 : Sterre Ala Corvi..To whom Lapacia the grete Is herbe.
- ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)174/18 : Lapasium is an herbe þat men clepe þe rede dokke.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)130 : The dokke is clepid paradilla and lapacium bothe. Þere ben iv manere of dokkes.