ancienor

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

ancianor, ancienour, ancieneur, anciennor, anchienor, ancineor, acienous, anciennour

Etymology edit

From *antiānōrum, genitive plural of Vulgar Latin *antiānus. One of the few survivals of the Latin genitive plural as invariable adjectives in medieval Romance, cf. Old French crestienor (“Christian”), francor (“French”), paienor (“pagan”), and Old Spanish juzgo (“legal, of the judges”).

Adjective edit

ancienor

of the ancients; ancient
- mid-late 11^th century, anonymous author, Vie de saint Alexis [Life of saint Alexius], stanza 1; republished as Gaston Paris, editor, La vie de saint Alexis (Recueil de travaux originaux ou traduits; 5)‎^[1], Paris, 1872, page 139:
  Bons fut li siecles al tens ancienor,
  Quer feit i ert e justise et amor,
  Si ert credance, dont or n’i at nul prot
  Good were the centuries in the ancient time, for both justice and love were accomplished, thus there was faith, which is now no advantage

References edit

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ancienor)
E. Einhorn, Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge University Press, 1974, page 29, →ISBN