septemtrioun

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem. Compare Modern English septentrion.

Noun

septemtrioun

1. septentrion
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, 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, line 2467:

     Bothe est and weste, [south], and septemtrioun.

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References

• “septemtrioun”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.