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vexillum

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Searchable Lemmata: vexillum (L), vexillum (MdE).
Alternate Forms: uexilla, uexillis, uexillo, vexilla, vexillis, vexillo.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; a banner or flag. The Revised Medieval Latin Word-List also notes various compound forms: vexillum crucis 'banner with the sign of the cross' (805, 11th cent., c. 1414), vexillum triumphale (12th cent.), vexillum mortuum 'sign of mourning' (13th cent.); these citations not available.(ante 800 - post 1450)
1. uictricia uexilla sigefæstan guþfanan uictoriosa Gloss. [DOE AldV 1 (Goossens) (1739 (1741))]
2. [1865] uexillo, .i. signo mid sigebeacne ... [4812] uexillo fanan. Gloss. [DOE AldV 13.1 (Nap) (1865, 4812)]
3. Quinque pipes de argento cum cruce argentia et deaurata cum ij tintinnabilis argentiis pro vexillo sancti Cuthberti. Accounts. [MED Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100 (445) 1397]
c.f.: bannum, fane, guþfana, pennon, sign
L, MdE.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical Latin, ultimately from the root of the verb verhere 'to carry'.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
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