| 释义 | posnetn.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pocenet.Etymology:  <  Anglo-Norman pocenet, pocenette, poscenet, posenet, posnet, possenet, postnez, Anglo-Norman and Old French possonet, Old French poçonnet, pochonet, Old French, Middle French pochonnet, Middle French pochenet ladle, dish, small cooking pot (early 13th cent.)  <  Anglo-Norman pochun   and Old French poçon  , posson  , Old French, Middle French, French regional (chiefly Savoy) pochon   pot, cup, ladle (13th cent.;  <  Old French, Middle French, French regional (Franco-Provençal region) poche   ladle (late 11th cent. as poje  ;  <  post-classical Latin popia   ladle (4th cent.), of uncertain origin) + -on  , diminutive suffix: see -oon suffix) + -et  -et suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin pocenettus, pocinettus, poscenetus, possenettus, possinetus (from early 13th cent. in British sources).Welsh posned (c1400) is  <  Anglo-Norman, perhaps via Middle English. It is uncertain whether early examples such as the following show the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word:1279    in  Archaeologia Cantiana 		(1876)	 10 324  				j poscenett.1326    in  J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham 		(1898)	 I. 114  				j Postenest pro Hostillario.1442    in  W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham 		(1883)	 II. 178  				Unum poscenet, pretii xvj d. Now historical . the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > 			[noun]		 > pot with legs or feetc1350    in   		(1951)	 2 44 (MED)  				I mot haue muche more wat þen a dishe, a pypin and a posnet. 1411    Will in  R. W. Chambers  & M. Daunt  		(1931)	 216 (MED)  				Y be-queþe to Johon Wyot..a postnet þat y lent hym. a1475     		(Sloane)	 		(1862)	 10 (MED)  				Welle alle togedur in a posnet. 1551    Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 77v, in   at Posnet  				The said Jhone promysit to hyme..and [sic] pot worth xiij s. quhilk beand refferrit to the said Jhone Quhytis aith he hes sworne..that he [promysit] bot ane small posnet. 1592    T. Kyd  3  				She put the posnet on the fire againe. 1612    in   Jan. 		(1906)	 28  				In the Kytchin..sixe brasse potts, eighte kettles, four postnetts. a1665    K. Digby  		(1669)	 136  				In a Possnet set it upon a clear lighted Char-coal-fire. 1710    R. Steele  No. 245. ⁋2  				A Silver Posnet to butter Eggs. 1829    J. Hunter   				Posnet, a pot for boiling. 1891     Sept. 345/2  				The great number of pewter plates,..teapots, posnets and porringers still found in old homes in New England. 1969     17 Aug. 14/3  				Iron ware including skillets, griddle and posnet. 1997     4 Apr. 16/4  				A..book which will educate those of us who..live in a world of 18th-century literature into the mysteries of lambrequins, posnets, eye-catchers and shell rooms.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).<  n.c1350 |