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单词 vetony
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vetonyn.

Forms: Middle English vetoine, Middle English vetonye, Middle English vetoyn, Middle English vetoyne, Middle English votoyn (transmission error), 1600s vett'ny; Scottish pre-1700 vetoun, pre-1700 veyton.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French vetoine.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman vetoine, vetonie (13th cent. or earlier; compare Old French vetoine , vetoigne , Middle French, French †vettoine (13th cent.)) < classical Latin vettonica (of uncertain prosody: see note; in post-classical Latin also vetonica (4th cent.)), use as noun (short for herba vettonica ) of feminine of vettonicus , adjective, probably ultimately of Celtic origin; derived by Pliny < the name of the Vettōnēs , a confederacy of (probably) Celtic peoples in the southern central region of the Iberian peninsula + -icus -ic suffix. Compare earlier betony n.Classical Latin vettonica is attested only in prose authors, so the vowel length is not evident. The 4th-cent. medical writer Serenus, who writes in verse, implies a form vēttŏnica.
Obsolete.
The plant betony, Stachys officinalis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > betony
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?a1400 Glosses Adv. MS in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1898) 100 158 Vetonica, i. vetoine.
c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 1 (MED) Take veruayne or vetoyn or filles of wormod and make lee þer-of.
?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 310 Betoyne is þe erbis name And vetonye eke in same.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 I sau veyton, the decoctione of it is remeid for ane sair hede.
1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vii. sig. B5 Of herbis... Pimpinell, Vetoun, Finkill.
1689 J. O. tr. A. Cowley Of Plants ii, in A. Cowley 3rd Pt. Wks. 35 From Spanish Woods the wholsom Vett'ny [L. Vettonica] came, The only glory of the Vettons Name.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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