Middle English Dictionary Entry
Novembre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | Novembre n. Also november. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
November, the eleventh month of the year; ~ thonder, November thunder.
Associated quotations
- a1225 Wint.Ben.Rule (Cld D.3)43/4 : On wintres tyman..fræm þan anȝinne þæs monþes þe is nouember ȝehaten fort eastron..on þare eahtaþan tide þare nihte is to arisenne.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)1414 : Ha..ferden, wið murðe, icrunet, to Criste o þe þreottuðe dei of Nouembres moneð.
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Einenkel)2494 : Þus wende..Katerine, icrunet, to Criste, from eorðliche pinen, i Nouembres [L novembrio] moneð.
- c1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)103 : Seint Miȝhel In nouembre hath ȝeot an-oþur dai.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1167 : Thanne is the larder of the swyn; That is Novembre which I meene, Whan that the lef hath lost his greene.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)125a/b : The Enleuenþe moneþ is Nouembre [L nouember] and hath þat name for he is þe nynþe aftir rayny tyme.
- a1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)15/23 : Þe tyme of wintir..es fra þe Kalandis of nouembir til þe paskys.
- a1425 Progn.Thunder(1) (Ashm 342)288 : Nouember þonder toneth plente of frute and yoyful yer.
- (1438) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.9 : Beiit remembred that the xix day of novembre, In the yere of the regne of kinge henry the sixt aftir the conquest the xvij, there came afore Stephen Browne maire & aldermen of london the worthy men of the craft of peautrers.
- a1450(1391) Chaucer Astr.(Benson-Robinson)1.10.17 : Than hath Januarie 31 daies, Februarie 28..November [vr. Nouembre] 30.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1122 : Fro þe kalandes of Nouember Vn-to þe pase, es risyng right At þe aght our of þe nyght.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)35 : In januari be þe signe þei clepe aquari..in novembir be þe scheter, in december be þe gote.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2722 : Vnto the iiide. Ide of Nouembre [L Nouembres] The dayis wil now loure and now be cleer.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)50a/a : Sagittarie þe 9 signe haþ lordschipe ouer þe haunche & þe þies In to whom þe sunne entriþ þe firste day of nouembre þe ii hour of þe day.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)74/5 : Heruest..ys fro þe xxiiijty day of septembre to þe xxiij day of Nouembre.
- a1500 When thonder comeþ (Cmb Ff.5.48)53 : If þou here any thonder In þe moneth of Nouember, Of corn we shall haue gret plente.
- c1500 XXXti days (Hnt HU 1051)p.421 : xxxti days hath Novembre, June, Aprill and Septembre.