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tisanen. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French tysanne, ptisane, tisane; Latin ptisana. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman tysanne and Middle French ptisane, ptisanne, thysanne, tisaine, tisane, tisanne, tizanne, tysaine, French tisane, †ptisane barley water (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), medicinal drink made by infusion of herbs, with or without barley (1480; rare before 18th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ptisana, tisana (in post-classical Latin also tipsana (12th cent.; from 13th cent. in British sources), ptissana (18th cent. or earlier)) peeled or pearl barley, drink made from this < ancient Greek πτισάνη peeled or pearl barley, barley-gruel < πτίσσειν to peel, to winnow, to crush or bray as in a mortar (see pisé n.) + -ανη, suffix forming nouns.Compare Old Occitan tizana (mid 14th cent.; also tisana, typsana, tyzana), Catalan tisana (late 15th cent.; also †ptisana), Spanish tisana (a1418; also †tipsana, †ptisana), Portuguese tisana (15th cent.), Italian tisana (c1300; also †ptisana). The forms tysant, tysante, ptizand show an excrescent final consonant. the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of barley the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > specific decoction or infusion α. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 238v Of bareliche yscheled and ysoden in water is medicynable drynk ymade þat phisicians clepiþ thisane. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 139 (MED) In þe v day he took þikke tezanne [v.r. tysan]. c1440 51 Þe best drynke ware calde water mengede with vynagre or tysayn, for tysayn profettes mekill to men þat are colorik. a1500 in (1885) 8 281 (MED) Do gete you ayenst hete..a busshell of clene barly for tysayne. 1567 G. Turberville 97 b They will refuse the Tysants taste. 1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes i. iv. 17 A little of the tysan the Earle had drunke of. a1625 T. Lodge (1881) 9 The patient..must bee content to drink Tisince, balme water, or the Iuleb of roses. 1709 D. Manley 126 He could not confine himself to Wine and Water, or Tissanes. 1741 A. Fraser in J. G. Burnett (1951) 267 A pint of Tisan to Master. 1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 8 Oct. in (1993) 122 She also gave me a bundle of wild carrot, of which she directed me to make a tisane, well sweetened, to be drank occasionally. 1854 C. D. Badham 119 Paul of Ægina advises that the patient quaff a light tisane. a1904 K. Chopin Beyond Bayou in (1981) 160 Tante Lizette, brewing her tisane there in a corner. 1931 W. Cather i. iv. 29 He kept them away from doctors,—gave them tisanes and herb-teas and poultices. 1965 7 July p. xii/2 The health food shop with..lime flower tisanes and heather honey. 2001 C. B. Janeway tr. S. Márai iv. 32 Later, lime-blossom tisane was brought. β. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 162 (MED) After operacioun of þe medicyne..ffor to drynke a drauȝt of pthisane for to wash þe stomac.a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus (Wellcome) (1991) 108 (MED) Let him ete diapenidion with ptisane. (Ptisane is watir þat barliche is soden yn.)?1537 T. Elyot ii. xxi. 36 Ptysane..is none other than pure barley, brayed in a morter, and sodden in water.?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot vii. f. xliiii Drynke a ptisane made of barlye, liquyrice, prunes, and the rootes of fenell.1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 8 v, in And of cleane Barly and puer water, is made that excellente water called Ptisant.1612 P. Pomarius (new ed.) ii. 237 In the stead of wine, wee must vse Ptizand.1643 J. Steer tr. Fabricius vii. 30 Let his drinke be phtisan.1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 15 in The benefit I had by the drinking of Ptizanne [Fr. ptisane].1699 S. Garth iii. 33 Thrice happy were those Golden days of old, When dear as Burgundy, Ptisans were sold.1766 A. Smith Let. 26 Aug. in (1977) lxxxxiv. 115 He only ordered some cooling ptisane drink.1772 T. Percival (1777) I. 327 He had drank about a pint of the ptisan.1828 W. Scott (1886) xvii. 216 A large cup of ptisan was presented by the page, which the sick man swallowed with eager and trembling haste.1858 R. G. Mayne (1860) Ptisana,..A drink made of farinaceous substances boiled in water and sweetened; a ptisan, tisane, more correctly, perhaps, ptissan.1885 R. F. Burton tr. IV. cccxxv. 223 The old woman ceased not to..ply him with ptisanes and diet-drinks.1923 10 Sept. 5/4 Take ptisanes made of the roots of wild..strawberry..with a very small quantity of licorice.1992 (Nexis) 28 Nov. Woodruff... When made into a weak ptisan it has the effect of cheering the spirits.the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > prepared grains a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 66 Tipsana, ordeum decorticatis vel cortis [a1500 Canterbury Cath. Libr. decorticatum vel coctum], thysane. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 128v Tysan, ptisana. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. 33 Vnlesse it be taken with Ptisane, or husked Barly alone. 1612 W. Vaughan (ed. 4) vii. 77 Take halfe an ounce of Cassia fistula, a drachme of Rheubarbe, and infuse them in water of Endiue with an ounce of the sirupe of Limonds: The next morning mingle all these with three ounces of Ptisan or Whay, and drinke this infusion warme. 1688 R. Holme iii. vii. 317 Ptisan, or Husk of Corn. 1756 J. Greive tr. Celsus iii. xxii. 167 The food at first ought to be pungent..afterwards mild, as gruel made from ptisan, or alica, or from starch, with the addition of milk. 1858 R. G. Mayne (1860) Ptisana, barley pounded and made into balls... A ptisan, tisane. Compounds 1583 P. Barrough iv. iii. 178 Minister againe Ptysan broth. 1797 131 The week after, if his distemper increases, we may venture a little ptisan broth boiled with some husked barley. 1815 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy I. 61 Narrow-brimmed hats, fit only for ptisan venders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.a1398 |