† meadsweetn.

Forms: Middle English medesewte, Middle English medesote, Middle English medeswote, Middle English medsote, Middle English medsowte, Middle English medswete, Middle English medswot, 1500s maidesweete, 1500s medesweete, 1500s medeswete, 1500s–1700s maidsweet, 1600s meades-sweet, 1600s–1700s meadsweet.

Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mead n.¹, sweet adj.

Etymology: Perhaps (like meadwort n.) < mead n.¹ + sweet adj., although early confused with mead n.², as indicated by the re-formation meadowsweet n. The forms with -ai- probably arose by association with maid n.¹; compare discussion s.v. meadwort n.Middle Dutch mādesoete , mēdesoete , mēdesuete is probably unrelated: the form with -ā- in the first syllable and the sense ‘daisy’ suggest that the first element is instead related to mead n.² (see Middle Dutch forms s.v.).

Obsolete.

= meadowsweet n. 1.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > meadow-sweet or dropwort

meadworteOE

meadsweeta1400

bridewort?a1450

meadowsweet1530

filipendula1548

goat's beard?1550

dropwort1597

queen of the meadow1597

mock-willow1633

meadow queena1637

queen of the prairie1852

honey-sweet1880

a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 40 Citria, mellissa idem. anglice medswete uel bonrefair.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 595/29 Melessa, medeswote.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 607/20 Regina prati, medesewte.

a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 202 (MED) Regina prati is an herbe þat me clepuþ medsowte or medwort or brydwort.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxix. 41 Medesweete or Medewurte..hath great, long brode leaues like Egrimonie.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 886 Medesweete is called..in English Maidesweete, Medow sweete, and Queene of the medowes.

1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Meadsweet, Regina prati.

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Ulmaria.. Meadsweet, or medewort [1783 meadwort] goat's beard.

1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 252 Maid-sweet that grows like a Kecks in wet Meadows.

1778 J. Scott Moral Eclogues iii, in Poet. Wks. (1782) 12 And meadsweet tall with tufts of flowrets crown'd.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	meadsweet
释义	† meadsweetn. Forms: Middle English medesewte, Middle English medesote, Middle English medeswote, Middle English medsote, Middle English medsowte, Middle English medswete, Middle English medswot, 1500s maidesweete, 1500s medesweete, 1500s medeswete, 1500s–1700s maidsweet, 1600s meades-sweet, 1600s–1700s meadsweet. Origin: Perhaps formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mead n.¹, sweet adj. Etymology: Perhaps (like meadwort n.) < mead n.¹ + sweet adj., although early confused with mead n.², as indicated by the re-formation meadowsweet n. The forms with -ai- probably arose by association with maid n.¹; compare discussion s.v. meadwort n.Middle Dutch mādesoete , mēdesoete , mēdesuete is probably unrelated: the form with -ā- in the first syllable and the sense ‘daisy’ suggest that the first element is instead related to mead n.² (see Middle Dutch forms s.v.). Obsolete. = meadowsweet n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > meadow-sweet or dropwort meadworteOE meadsweeta1400 bridewort?a1450 meadowsweet1530 filipendula1548 goat's beard?1550 dropwort1597 queen of the meadow1597 mock-willow1633 meadow queena1637 queen of the prairie1852 honey-sweet1880 a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 40 Citria, mellissa idem. anglice medswete uel bonrefair. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 595/29 Melessa, medeswote. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 607/20 Regina prati, medesewte. a1500 Agnus Castus (Laud) (1950) 202 (MED) Regina prati is an herbe þat me clepuþ medsowte or medwort or brydwort. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxix. 41 Medesweete or Medewurte..hath great, long brode leaues like Egrimonie. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 886 Medesweete is called..in English Maidesweete, Medow sweete, and Queene of the medowes. 1648 J. Bobart Eng. Catal. in Catalogus Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis Meadsweet, Regina prati. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Ulmaria.. Meadsweet, or medewort [1783 meadwort] goat's beard. 1750 W. Ellis Country Housewife's Family Compan. 252 Maid-sweet that grows like a Kecks in wet Meadows. 1778 J. Scott Moral Eclogues iii, in Poet. Wks. (1782) 12 And meadsweet tall with tufts of flowrets crown'd. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.a1400
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