Middle English Dictionary Entry
oleaster n.
Entry Info
| Forms | oleaster n. Also oliaster. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The wild olive (Olea oleaster); ?also, the cultivated olive [quot.: ?1440].
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)237a/a : Þe grees ordeynede þat here victours schulde be crowned wiþ olyaster.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)238a/a : Olyaster is a wilde olyf tre and haþ þat name for he is liche to þe olyf tre, but leues þerof ben braddere..and þis tree is bareyn & bitter and nouȝt y-tiled.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.115 : And bareyn yf thin oliaster [L Oleam] be, Take bowes tweyne of treen that fructifie.