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melilotn. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin melilōtos; French melilot. Etymology: < classical Latin melilōtos, melilōtum (for α. forms see note below) < ancient Greek μελίλωτος , μελίλωτον < μέλι honey (see mell n.2) + λωτός (see lotus n.); reborrowed in late Middle English, probably partly via Old French mellilote (c1300), Middle French melilot (c1330; c1300 in Old French as mellilote; French mélilot). Compare Old Occitan melilot (1366), Italian meliloto (14th cent.), Spanish meliloto (1555).The α. forms reflect a corrupt post-classical Latin form milotis, resulting from haplography, found in the Latin rubrics of English versions of the Herbarium of Apuleius from the first half of the 11th cent. (this form is apparently not found in any of the Latin versions). Scientific Latin Melilotus was adopted as a genus name in P. Miller Gardeners Dict.: Abridged (ed. 4, 1754). the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > melilot α. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) clxxxiii. 228 Ðeos wyrt þe man milotis..nemneð byð cenned on beganum stowum & on wætum. ?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Harl. 6258B) civ. 71 Þeos wyrt, þe man milotis [nemneð], byð cenned..on wætum. Compounds C1. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress 1676 R. Wiseman v. i. 351 To which purpose Sponges were prest out of Melilot Emplaster, and the Wound fill'd with them. 1694 W. Salmon ii. vii. 912/1 A Mellilot Emplaster or Colewort leaf may be applyed. ?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in (1888) App. ix. 226 The pouldre of mellilote flowres. 1826 19 27 Water distilled from the melilot flowers has been held to improve the flavour of other substances. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress 1712 J. Swift 24 Apr. (1948) II. 530 At last I advised the Dr to use it like a blister; so I did, with Melilot Plaisters, which still run. 1795 E. Burke (1844) IV. 276 I would not put my melilot plaister on the back of the hangman. 1955 G. Grigson 131 In medicine it [sc. melilot] was a chief ingredient of the famous Melilot Plaister, or poultice, frequently described in the herbals. †C2. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks 1677 R. Plot 240 If it be of that poorest sort they call white-land, nothing is so proper as ray-grass mixt with Non-such, or Melilot Trefoil. a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in (1760) 151 We found..a kind of Melilot-trefoil. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) III. 646 Trifolium..Melilotus officinalis... Melilot Trefoil. Common Melilot. King's Claver. 1811 D. Hosack (ed. 2) 56 Trifolium officinale L... Clover or Melilot Trefoil. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland 332 Melilot Trefoil, Medicago lupulina, L.—‘The old writers call it Melilot Trefoil.’ Mart. Mill [= Thomas Martyn's edition of Miller's Gardeners' Dict., 1797–1804], but we have not met with the name in earlier works. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.OE |
