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bombyx

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Searchable Lemmata: bombyx (L), bombax (ME), bombyx (MdE).
Alternate Forms: bombex, bombix, bombukes.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Raw Material; silkworm, or (raw) sillk in general.(ante 700 - ante 1500)
1. Sericum dictum quia id Seres primi miserunt; vermiculi enim ibi nasci perhibentur, a quibus haec circum arbores fila ducuntur; vermes autem ipsi Graece BOMBUKES nominantur. Placium est stuppa et quasi crassedo serici, et est Graecum nomen. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,27,5)]
2. Bombix : siolucwyrm ł sidwyrm ł loppe [DOE ClGl 1 (Stryker) (0740 (763))]
3. Bombosum sono furibundo. Bombex .i. frondium uermis ł bombolicius. Bombicine uermes qui texunt seram l bombices. [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (0210 (B335))]
4. Some [trees] ben bigrowe, as it were, with here other with wolle, and þer of ben cloþes y made by crafte, as it were bombax [MED *Trev.Barth. ((Add 27944) 184b/a) ante 1398]
5. Bombix: a sew worm [Cnt.: a sylke worme] Gloss. [MED *Medulla ((Stnh A.1.10) 10a/b) ante 1425]
c.f.: bombace
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
2a(n.) Raw Material; silk. Cf. bombace; occasionally, cotton fibres.(ante 700 - ante 1100)
1. Sericum dictum quia id Seres primi miserunt; vermiculi enim ibi nasci perhibentur, a quibus haec circum arbores fila ducuntur; vermes autem ipsi Graece BOMBUKES nominantur. Placium est stuppa et quasi crassedo serici, et est Graecum nomen. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,27,5)]
c.f.: bombace
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin bombyx < Greek βόμβυξ.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: βόμβυξ.
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