Middle English Dictionary Entry
latī̆s n.
Entry Info
| Forms | latī̆s n. Also latis(s)e, latice, lattis, latiz, lates; pl. latises, etc. & latis, lateis. |
| Etymology | OF latiz |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A lattice-work structure of metal or of wooden strips or rods, used in windows or doors instead of glass or to protect the glass; (b) a lattice window; (c) ~ closinge, a wall or partition of lattice-work; ~ nail, a nail used in making a lattice.
Associated quotations
a
- (1304) Acc.Chester in LCRS 5944 : [Repairing the windows; and for nails bought as well for the boards as for the] lattis.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))SSol.2.9 : He stant bihynde oure wal, biholdende bi the windowes, aferr lookende thurȝ the latises [WB(2): latisis; vr. latijs; L cancellos].
- (a1395) Acc.Savoy in Archaeol.24314 : Per iiijxxij lb. ferri empti & operati in modum & formam unius latys & in murum ejusdem turris positi includentis fenestram..ad sufficientem custodiam incarcerat[orum] in eadem turre.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.174/1063-65 : Item, for an latys þat standith yn þe wendowe of þe grete chamber..Item for an litill latys, with ij Smale garnettes, þat standith yn þe Chamber ouer þe oovene.
- (1445) in Salzman Building in Engl.186 : For makyng of iij grete latises set in the kyngges chappelle ther for conservacion of iij glason wyndowys, of wech a pece of latyzys holdytt vj foote in length and j foote and di. in brede.
- ?c1450 in Aungier Syon Mon.272 : The body..schal be leyed upon the bere and couered withe a cheste made in maner of a wyde latyce, that the body may be seen.
- (1452-3) in Willis & C.Cambridge 2449 : Pro factura x lateys in deambulatorio inter capellam et librariam.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)12078 : Wyketys or wyndowys..nat dyffencyd wel..Nor yclosyd by good devys, Overthwertyd wyth no latys.
- c1475 Gregory's Chron.(Eg 1995)213 : They hadde a thynge made lyke unto a latysse fulle of naylys..but hit wolde be mevyd as a man wolde.
- (1476-78) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.3231 : Item, for ij new Garnettes for latys in the west wyndow, xviij d.; Item, for makyng of the iij latyses, xviij d.
b
- [ 1349 *Acc.Exch.K.R.471/3.m.7 [OD col.] : Pro factura v latiz pro le tresorie domini Regis vna cum Meremis et clau[e]..x s. ]
- (1422) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.123 : [Two] latys [belonging to the inn of J. Ladiner..are too low so that riders and carts are often hindered and incommoded].
- ?a1425 Chaucer TC (Hrl 3943)2.615 : A go we sene, cast vp the latis wyde, For þurgh þis strete he must to paleys ride.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)400 : The pareshe preste..sate at his selle, and loked out at his latyse toward the kyrke.
c
- (1347) in Salzman Building in Engl.310 : Latysnail.
- (1434-5) MSS Penshurst in HMC1.213 : [4000] latisnayle.
- (1447) in Salzman Building in Engl.310 : Latesnayle.
- c1450(?c1425) St.Eliz.Spalb.(Dc 114)114/46 : Þe chapel is departyd fro þe chaumbyr wiþ a smalle latys-closynge, and in þe myddes of þat closynge þere is a dore þat opens in to þe chapelle.