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单词 nardine
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nardinen.adj.

Forms: Middle English–1600s 1700s–1800s nardine, 1500s nardyn, 1700s nardín; Scottish pre-1700 narding.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nardinus.
Etymology: < classical Latin nardinus of nard < Hellenistic Greek νάρδινος < νάρδος nardus n. + -ινος -ine suffix2. Compare Middle French nardin (adjective) made of nard, scented like nard (second half of the 16th cent.). The noun use appears to have arisen first in the phrase oil of nardine, translating post-classical Latin oleum nardinum (see note).With oil nardine compare Hellenistic Greek νάρδινον μύρον , classical Latin unguentum nardinum , post-classical Latin oleum nardinum (a1350 in a British source). Compare also the following:1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. iii. 4 Make an ointement thus..of oyle of rewe, cammomill, and nardinum. With quot. 1791 at sense A. compare Persian nārdīn spikenard.
Obsolete.
A. n.
The ointment nard.
ΚΠ
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 104 Anoynte his nolle & his necke wiþ hoote oynementis as wiþ oile of nardine.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 40 Galien..praiseþ basilicon dissolued with oleo rosum if it be ȝet hote with nardine [?c1425 Paris oyle of spyconard; L. oleo nardino].
1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. f. 312, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Narding Oyllie of narding.
1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Braggard Captain iii. iv, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies I. 192 He has taken A cup by stealth: the butler through neglect Left in his way a pitcher-full of Nardine.
1791 W. Jones tr. in Asiatick Researches 2 409 There are three sorts of Sumbul or Nardín.
B. adj.
Of the nature of or relating to nard. rare. oil nardine n. oil of nard.
ΚΠ
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxiiiiv Take oyle nardine [L. oleum Nardinum, Ger. öll von spicanardi], oyle of whyte lyllies, of ech an ounce and an halfe.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Nardine, pertaining to nard; having the qualities of spikenard. Asiat. Res.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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