Ze Slovníku středověké latiny: muscida huba

• Authors: Nývlt Pavel

Title variants

EN

From the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in Czech Lands: muscida huba

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the pair muscida huba, found in several 14th- and 15th-century Latin-Czech glossaries. Its interpretation is not immediately clear, because there were two homonymous words húba in the Old Czech, the one meaning “muzzle”, the other “fungus”. Jan Gebauer, the author of the authoritative Old Czech dictionary, ascribed to the word huba paired with muscida the meaning “fungus”. On the basis of parallels from the translation of Ptolemyís Almagest written by Gerhard of Cremona in the 12th century and a Latin-Norman glossary from the 13th century, the author argues that the word actually meant “muzzle”. He also discusses the etymology of the Latin word and the route by which it found its way in Latin-Czech glossaries.

Keywords

EN

medieval Latin; medieval lexicography; Latin glossaries; Bartholomaeus de Solencia dictus Claretus

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 139
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 431-437

Contributors

author

Nývlt Pavel

• Kabinet pro klasická studia FLÚ AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic