Middle English Dictionary Entry
autumpne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | autumpne n. |
| Etymology | OF autumpne, autonne & L autumnus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Fall, autumn.
Associated quotations
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)123b/a : Harueste hatte autumpnus and haþ þat name of augendo, echinge, for þat tyme nameliche corn and fruyt beþ echid. ]
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.3347 : Þei haue her frute be-hiȝt Ageyn autumpne..Whan on vynes ripeth euery grape.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.m.5.27 : The leeves that the wynd that hyghte Boreas hath reft awey in autumpne (that is to seie, in the laste ende of somer).
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.6.35 : And autumpne comith ayein hevy of apples.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)107a/a : Sikenesse of þe iuncturez..ar y moued in ver and in autupne [*Ch.(2): harveste]. In ver, for habundaunce of humoures gendred..In autumpne, for þe malice of hem.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)38/23 : Aboute autumpne or heruest.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)1488 : The foure sesouns shewe in ther degre, ffirst veer and Estas, next Autumpne with his greyn, Constreynt of wyntir.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1475(c1450) Shirley SSecr.(Add 5467)245/7 : Of atumpne and what it is.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)53b/a : He bigynneþ to encresen þe firste day of autumpnus, þat is to seie þe þridde Jde of august, and duriþ vnto þe sixte Jde of decembre.
Note: New spelling
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1484 Liber Fleobot.(Trin-C R.14.52)283/77 : After lipotomye, bloode we take awey in passions made of the lunges or in podagre or striter tyme, competently if it falle and in attum[m]pne or hervest.
Note: New form.
Note: Postdates word.