Middle English Dictionary Entry
cardamome n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cardamome n. Also cardi(mo)mum, cordumeni, gardemoin. |
| Etymology | OF cardemome (var. gardemoine) & L cardamōmum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The spice cardamom; also, the plant yielding this spice.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)187a/b : Þe men..holden hem apaied with salt and cardamomum [L cardamomo] for alle manere potage.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)219b/a : And cardimomum is double, lasse and more; and þe more is cleped tame, and þe lasse yclepid wilde.
- (1420-1) in Gras Eng.Cust.Syst.512 : De Philippo Tayper' pro ii balis zinziberis..i barello long' peper, i sacco, gardemoyn'.
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)157a/b : Take..of Azarabakkera, cordumeni [*Ch.(1): cardamomi].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)189a/b : Take..of greynes, of cardamome [L cardamomi], of longe piper.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)119/19 : Take..þe seed of cardimum.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)128/9 : Take..seed of cardimomum.
- a1500 Hrl.2378 Recipes (Hrl 2378)88/12 : A good medicine for the cancre..take salt-petre and wurtis-stokkis and fine senchoun, wilde cardamum.