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Searchable Lemmata: viridis (L), vert (AF), gwyrdd (W), gwer (Co), vert (ME), vert (MdE).
Alternate Forms: guid, guirt, gwyrd, gwyrddion, verd, verde, verte, verz, viride, viridi, viridis, viridum, viridus, wert, wyrd, wyrdd.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Manufacture;
the colour green (also an adj.). Still in use in English as the name of a heraldic tincture, and the Welsh and French borrowings of the Latin word are still current in those languages.(ante 1100 still in current use)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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2b(adj.)
Manufacture;
fresh or new; unripe. With regard to cloth and clothing: undyed (leather or animal skins). The Revised Medieval Latin Word-List also notes instances of Latin viridis in this sense a. 1242 and 1294 (no citations available).(ante 1242 - circa 1350 ? still in current use)
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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1c(n.)
Textile;
a type of green cloth. The Revised Medieval Latin Word-List notes instances of Latin viridis in this sense for 1173 and c. 1307 and an instance of viridum for 1252 (no citation available).(circa 1173 - circa 1500 ?)
2. [277] ... Togam meam de nigro furratum cum Matres & Fychewes ... Togam meam de Viridi furratam cum Martres
[278] ... Item, lego Hæredi meo ... Robam meam de Scarleto Furratam cum Meyniuer, Surcote overt, & Collobium cum barr. de Ermyn. ... [300] ... Havyng wyth the Erle a Baner of the Armes of Ynglond.
Legal.
[MED in Rymer's Foedera (1709-10) (9.277-300) 1415]
Sex: Male, Female Ceremonial: No
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Etymological Evidence:
Definite, all forms descend from Latin viridis 'green, fresh, verdant'; the Latin is directly > French vert and Welsh gwyrdd / Cornish gwer (via syncopated Vulgar Latin virdis); borrowed from Anglo-French into Middle English. There were numerous other uses of the word in the medieval period, e.g. for woodland under special jurisdiction, etc.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: vert, green.
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