auntrous
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French aventuros.
Adjective edit
auntrous
- adventurous
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 219-21:
- And for he was a knyght auntrous,
He nolde slepen in noon hous,
But liggen in his hoode.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: adventurous
References edit
- “auntrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aventūrǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.