† polymiteadj.n.

Forms: late Middle English polimite, late Middle English polymete (perhaps transmission error), late Middle English polymyte.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French polymite; Latin polymitus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French polymite, polimite (noun) multi-coloured fabric (13th cent. in Old French; 1506 as adjective), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin polymitus (adjective) woven with threads of different colours (frequently with reference to Genesis 37:3, where the Vulgate has Latin polymitus , translating Greek ποικίλος in the Septuagint) < ancient Greek πολύμιτος composed of many threads < πολυ- poly- comb. form + μίτος a warp thread (see mito- comb. form).Compare later isolated use as noun (in Latinate form):1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xiii So as to work the cloths called polymita.

Obsolete. rare.

Of a garment, piece of fabric, etc.: woven out of many different or different-coloured threads; multicoloured. Also as n.: a multicoloured precious stone.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]

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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 559 Þouȝ my wede be nat polymyte, Colourles, forþe I wil endyte.

c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) iii. 773 Of yonge Ioseph, The coote polymete [rhyme wryte; L. tunicam polymitam]..Performede was.

a1475 Asneth 74 in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. (1910) 9 229 Ten chambres for here wer bild... The firste was fair and large, with porfereit stonis walled, Poudred with precious polimites, of diuerse colours called.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	polymite
释义	† polymiteadj.n. Forms: late Middle English polimite, late Middle English polymete (perhaps transmission error), late Middle English polymyte. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French polymite; Latin polymitus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French polymite, polimite (noun) multi-coloured fabric (13th cent. in Old French; 1506 as adjective), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin polymitus (adjective) woven with threads of different colours (frequently with reference to Genesis 37:3, where the Vulgate has Latin polymitus , translating Greek ποικίλος in the Septuagint) < ancient Greek πολύμιτος composed of many threads < πολυ- poly- comb. form + μίτος a warp thread (see mito- comb. form).Compare later isolated use as noun (in Latinate form):1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xiii So as to work the cloths called polymita. Obsolete. rare. Of a garment, piece of fabric, etc.: woven out of many different or different-coloured threads; multicoloured. Also as n.: a multicoloured precious stone. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 559 Þouȝ my wede be nat polymyte, Colourles, forþe I wil endyte. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) iii. 773 Of yonge Ioseph, The coote polymete [rhyme wryte; L. tunicam polymitam]..Performede was. a1475 Asneth 74 in Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. (1910) 9 229 Ten chambres for here wer bild... The firste was fair and large, with porfereit stonis walled, Poudred with precious polimites, of diuerse colours called. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.c1425
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