Middle English Dictionary Entry
averī̆l n.
Entry Info
| Forms | averī̆l n. Also av(e)rel. |
| Etymology | OF avril |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. april.
1.
April; moneth of ~.
Associated quotations
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)24196 : Þa æstre wes aȝonge and Aueril [Otho: Auerel] eode of tune.
- c1300 SLeg.Theoph.(LdMisc 108)192 : His day fallez in þe ȝere A luyte bi-fore Aueryl.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10092 : Þe tuelfte day he deide, of aueril þe sixte day.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)10410 : In þe monþe of aueril.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)42/946 : Þis enderdai, in on Aueril, Þerl of Nauerne com to þis þede.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.333 : [Þe tabernacle] was arered þe firste day of Auerel [Higd.(2): Aprile].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1029 : Averil..of his schoures Ministreth weie unto the floures.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.546 : I loued to be gay And for to walke in March, Auerill, and May.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)124b/b : The fourþe monþe is auerill..and hatte aprill in latyn, as it were aperilis, for þat tyme alle þingis openyþ..þerfore auerille is I peint beringe a floure.
- c1405 Chaucer CT.Prol.(Heng)A.1 : Whan that Auerylle with his shoures soote.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)18 : In Aueril or in maij into myddel of Juin.
- a1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)1168 : Þis es þe tweft ȝere in Auerell.
- (1430) Let.Scrope in EHR 54424 : The v D[ay] of this present moneth of Averylle.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)5.204 : Avrel [BodAdd: Abrel] with September in houris oon is.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)225 : Geder wyþynne þe þre fyrst dayes of auerel.
- (1455) Acc.St.Ewen in BGAS 15145 : The xvj day of Averelle.
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)419/15 : The date..the xx day of the monthe of Averel, the xlvij ti yere of the reigne of kyng Edward.
- a1500 Maysters that (BodAdd A.106)55 : The last day of aueryll þat is both stowt & gryll.