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fil de argent

, file + argentum.
Searchable Lemmata: fil de argent (AF), argentifilum (L).
Alternate Forms:

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; silver thread or wire.(ante 1230 - 1500)
1. [125] ... firmaculariii habeant ante se firmacula ... de plumbo facta et de stagno, et ferro et cupro ... allutarii ... conservant sibi *forumpedias, aequitibialia et spatulas [gl.: aequitibialia dicuntur estivax, ab equus, aequitibiala, aequitibialum, quia adequantur tibie] ... [126] ... clamant ciphos reparandos cum filo eneo [v.l. ereo] et argenteo Other. [DMLBS GARL. (Dict. 125-126) ante 1230]
2. seram dentatam: lime denté, sawe / limam: file/ filum argenteum: fil de argent / cophini: hanepers / ciphi: hanaps / consui: estre cusu ... gremio: gerunA gloss on a citation from MS London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 801. An alternate gloss in MS London, British Library, Harley 683, offers the reading 'filum aregenteum: fil d'or. It is possibly an error, see the entry fil d'or. [AND TLL (ii 117) ante 1300]
3. argentifilum, sylver wyre Gloss. [DMLBS WW (argentifilum) post 1400]
AF.
Status: High    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, fil (file, filum) + de + argent.
WF: Compound
Etym Cog:
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