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monile

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Searchable Lemmata: monile (L), monilium (L).
Alternate Forms: munila, monilia, munile, monlini, monilibus, moniliorum.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Jewellery; necklace or collar.(ante 700 - circa 1250)
1. Monile ł serpentinum : myne ł sweorbeh [DOE AntGl 4 (Kindschi) (0822 (822))]
2. Crepundium .i. monile gutturis : myne : ornamentum cunabulum cespis . [DOE HlGl (Oliphant) (1669 (C2046))]
3. lunulis munilibus : halsmenum ł sweorbeagum. Gloss. [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (1238 (1238))]
4. Torques sunt circuli aurei a collo ad pectus usque pendentes. Torques autem et bullae a viris geruntur; feminis vero monilia et catella. Dictae autem torques quod sint tortae, et bullae quod similes sint rotunditate bullis quae in aqua vento inflantur. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,31,11)]
5. Monile ornamentum ex gemmis est, quod solet ex feminarum pendere collo; dictum a munere. Hoc etiam et serpentum dicitur, quia constat ex amphorulis quibusdam aureis, gemmisque variis in modum facturae serpentis. Nonnulli hoc et (segmentum dicunt, ut Iuvenalis (2,124):) Segmenta et longos habitus; licet et segmentatas vestes dicamus, ut ipse (6,89): Et segmentatis dormisset parvola cunis. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,31,12)]
6. monile myne oððe swurbeah [DOE ÆGl (034000 (303.15))]
7. Pulchra est gena tua amica mea sicut turturis collum tuum sicut monilia murenulas aureas faciemus tibi uermiculatas argento feger is levr hagospind ðin mego min svæ tvrtvres svire ðin svælce svirbeg bvlas gyldenno gidoe ve ðe giberbedo svlfere. [DOE DurRitGl 1 (Thomp-Lind) (0022 (4.1))]
8. video ... munile aureum ... circa collum ejus (V. S. Carthagi 8) Biblical/Hagiographic. [DMLBS VSH (I 172) circa 1250]
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Neck.
1b(n.) Jewellery; brooch, clasp or pin.(circa 1200 - circa 1475)
1. monile ... quod insculptum habebat Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS GIR. (GE I 32) 1197]
2. monile : delc[This reading is likely to be an error. The gloss scribe has possibly used 'dalc' as a gloss on 'spinter' from his source (Graves, R. (1962)a, p. 150 - SR] [LexP CV (329) ante 1200]
3. unam capam ... una cum monili argenteo et amallato, Annunciacionem Dominicam figuraliter continente Other. [DMLBS Lit. Cant. (II 125) 1336]
4. stetit in medio circuli ponens quatuor monilia in modum crucis in fimbriis ejusdem circuli in quibus monilibus inscripta erant verba salutifera scilicet Jhesus Nazarenus etc. Other. [DMLBS Ghost Stories (417) circa 1400]
5. monilia duo: sc. unum aureum de cappa regis et aliud argenteum de cappa abbatis de Ramesia (Cart. Reading) Accounts. [DMLBS EHR (III 117) post 1400]
6. hoc monile, A. broche Gloss. [DMLBS WW (monile) 1400/1499]
7. [90a] ... owche: limula, limule, monile ... [91b] ... To paynt: pingere, depingere, pictare, pictuare Gloss. (dating uncertain) [MED *Cath.Angl. ((Add 15562) 90a-91b) circa 1475]
c.f.: dalk
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Neck.
References: Graves, R. (1962)
1c(n.) Jewellery; jewel, jewellery or an ornament (by extension in general contexts). Also with figurative uses.(ante 1100 - 1300)
1. monile : glencg [DOE PrudGl 1 (Meritt) (0613 (610))]
2. debellata Norwallia per Johannem regem Anglie, princeps ejus Lewelinus cum rege pacificatur, datis obsidibus et terris multis cum decima vaccarum et aliis monilibus multis Historic. [DMLBS Ann. Tewk. (I 60) circa 1241]
L.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin, from a root meaning 'neck' and cognate with e.g. Old English mene (q.v.).
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog: μάννος.
References:
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