Middle English Dictionary Entry
rāpe n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | rāpe n.(3) Also (Latinate) rapa; pl. rapes, -us. |
| Etymology | L rāpum, rāpa & OF rape. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The turnip Brassica rapa or the rape Brassica napus; (b) in cpds.: ~ oile, ~ sed; (c) the radish Raphanus sativus.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)244b/b : Euerich herbe wiþ a roote of moche norisshinge haþ seed þat is nought norisshynge, as it fareþ in pasnepis and in rapis [L rapa].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)244b/b : Rape..acordeþ more to mete þan to medicyne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)245a/a : Of seed of þe rape..is oyle y-made þat is nedefulle in many vse.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331b/b : Rapatorium is a vessel in þe whiche rapes [L rapule siue rape] beþ y-kepte or y-sode.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.12 : Rapes in Potage: Take rapus and make hem clene and waissh hem clene; quare hem, parboile hem, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)31b/b : He abstene hym fro alle þingez grosse, viscous, crude, fleumatic & ventous, As beþ swete þingez, substance of legumentez, i. potage or wortez, frutez, rapez, chestenez.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)174b/b : Þe secounde is þe iuse of..wilde nepe and of malum terre & of herbe Robert & off rapes.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)426 : Take rapes and scrape hom wel..and then cut hom on peces into a vessell into warme watur.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)627/33 : Rapa, nepe, is knowen, hote in þe secounde degre, moyste in þe firste degree, and maturynge.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.402 : Rapis make wel to smelle In condyment is now the tyme expresse.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)13.43 : Now rape in peecis smale is to divide And lightly boyle.
- a1500 Ld.Cook.Recipes (LdMisc 553)113 : Do thi fissh in thi disshes & thi rape aboue; messe hit & ȝif forth.
- a1500 Sln.Herb List (Sln 1201)75 : Herbes for Potage..Rapez.
b
- (1420-21) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.504 : De Wolfardo Alardesson pro vii barellis rape oile.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)133b/b : Take arrache sede, rape sede, mustarde sede.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)3.684 : Rape seed in to their hedes gete..wol make hem growe faste.
- (1467) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.610 : Item, pro ii barellis rape oyle, val. xxvi s. viii d.
c
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)423 : Rape, herbe: Raphanus, rapa.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)8.20 : The neep in weet lond we Now sowe and rape in roten londis rare.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)606/45 : Raphanus: Rapys.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (b)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. rape oil.