Ze Slovníku středověké latiny: ypnapus, vipperus a rais

• Authors: Šedinová Hana

Title variants

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From the Dictionary of Medieval Latin in the Czech Lands: Ypnapus, Vipperus and Rais

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The material of the Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum includes the terms ypnapus, vipera and rais, preserved, like dozens of other zoological names, in the Glossary written by the fourteenth-century lexicographer Bartholomaeus of Chlumec. Although the creatures denoted by these names belong to different animal classes and the words are found in two separate chapters of the Glossary, Claretus’ Czech equivalents (ohltan, ohltnik and ohlta) are derived from the same stem. The main aim of this article is to identify the origins and meanings of the Latin terms, in all probability borrowed by Claretus from Thomas of Cantimpré’s encyclopaedia, and explore the motives behind the creation of the three Czech equivalents.

Keywords

EN

medieval lexicography; ancient and medieval zoology; hypnale; vipera marina; raia; Bartholomaeus de Solencia dictus Claretus; Thomas; of Cantimpré

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 141
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 487–503

Contributors

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Šedinová Hana

• Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. - Kabinet pro klasická studia, Na Florenci 1420/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Česká republika