Middle English Dictionary Entry
cocleār n.
Entry Info
| Forms | cocleār n. |
| Etymology | L cochleāris, -ārium spoon. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A spoon used as a measure; a spoonful.
Associated quotations
- [ (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)330a/a : Þe leste mesure is coclearium, and is half a dragme. ]
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)331a/a : Coclear, a spoone, is a litil instrument of þe mesure of þe mouth and proporcionate þerto, and þer wiþ þe honde serueth þe mouþe of dyuers metes and nameliche of fletynge metes.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)24/14 : Þe instrument þat is called coclear, a spone.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1404) Will York in Sur.Soc.4334 : Lego Isabellae Uxori Ricardi Marschall vinter unum coclear parvum argenteum..lego Ricardi Marschall unum coclear argenti saldeum.
Note: Supplemental material
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)470 : Spone: Coclear.
Note: New sense: this quot. is under sense (c) in spon n. = "a spoon."
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl. ((Hrl 2274))119a : A Spvne: Coclear.
Note: New sense (also SM); quot. is under sense (c) in spon n. = "a spoon."
Note: In the Arderne Fistula quot., the coclear is a medical instrument (which also has a hole in it). Perhaps give this quot. a separate sense with a field label (for example, Surg.). See MED spon n., sense (d), which has this quot. and the gloss "Also, a surgical instrument shaped like a spoon." Perhaps also expand the MED quot.: "Take þe instrument þat is called coclear, a spone..so þat þe poynt of þe snowte stand in þe hole þat is in þe spone."-- notes per MLL
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. cochleare.