Middle English Dictionary Entry
prūne n.
Entry Info
| Forms | prūne n. Also pruna & (in place name) prum, prom. |
| Etymology | OF prune, pronne, prume & L prūnum & prūnus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A plum; also, a dried plum, a prune; drie ~, a prune; ~ (of) damascene, a damson plum; (b) a plum tree; also, in place name; (c) pathol. a carbuncle, malignant pustule.
Associated quotations
a
- (1345-6) Sacrist R.Ely 2130 : In ij lb. de Prunnes empt.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)321b/b : Some þinges þat draweþ laxeþ also, and beþ feruent..as it fareþ by prunes, sloon, and Thamarindis.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.71 : Cast þeron powdour fort, powdour douce, with raysons, corance, & prunes damysyns.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)74/15 : Take a potel of water..juiube..drie prunis of damascenes..& þanne lete him drynke.
- (1420-21) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.514 : i cista prunys.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)176b/b : Acacia is Iuyse of grene plommez or prunez..And for þi it is repercussif strongly.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)121b/a : Ȝif he maie not gone to þe priuee, he schal drinke water of þe decoccioun of drie prunes, but nouȝt of grene prunes, ffor grene prunes destruyen more a mannes appetite & engender more superfluites in þe stomak.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)152a/b : Þou schalt diete þe pacient þe firste þre dayes..wiþ water of barlye and of prunes.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)386/29 : When þe mater is digeste, purge it litel and litel with a laxatyf appozyme..of prunes, of thamaryndes, of cassia fistula.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)51 : Take fayre Marwe & Datys y-cutte in ij or iij, & Prunez, & putte..on a fayre cofynne.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)52 : Plante þe cofynne a-boue with Prunez & with Datys & gret Roysonys of Coraunce.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.41 : Do dates þerto, Igroundene, and raysyns and prunus also.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)80b/a : In tyme of somer he schal drynke þe sirup of rosis..wiþ watir of þe decoccioun of drie prunis and of þe seed of fenall.
b
- (c1195) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)529 : Promhelle.
- (1201) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)529 : Prunhill, Prunhull.
- (1250) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)529 : Prumhill.
- (1320) EPNSoc.7 (Sus.)529 : Promhull.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)123b/b : Þise medicynez so blackeþ..vryne of a hounde kept in 5 or 6 daiez or cortices of prunez [Ch.(2): plomme tree; L pruni] cocte to þiknez of hony.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)24b/b : Of blode vnloueable bi his substance & bi adustioun..ar gendred alle pusclez crustous fro a carbuncle vnto estiomenum, as bene carbuncle, pruna, ignispersicus.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)26a/b : Sich pusclez..bene of sanguine grosse boilyng & putrefying, þat whilez þe boilyng bigynneþ it is cause of carbuncle & prune & ignis persici.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)103a/b : Pruna is also a pustule þe whiche cummeþ of melancolye adhuste, and it is blake oþer liuide, & it cummeþ with euil accidentes be cause of þe venemosite of þe mater.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)106b/a : Pustules þat cummen of corupte humoures as ignis persicus, miliaris, formica, & pruna, þey ben alle heled wiþ one maner cure.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)93/1 : The carbuncle or þe prune or þe wylde fyre or antrax (þe whiche Auicen takeþ as it were for þe same) is an euel, flegmonyk pustle..And it is blak or swarte, wiþ derke redenesse and gylefull akþe, and wiþ brynnynge and blistrynge al aboute, of þe whiche scurfe comeþ oute when it is broken.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)27a/19 : In this maner bene made bledders, formikes, muliaris, prunes, and wildfyr, of whiche is welnygh all one maner cur as I shall teche the.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pruna.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. prune.