drihtenlic
Appearance
Old English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]drihtenlīċ
- belonging to the lord, lordly
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
- Ɖa wæs ymb tū hund wintra ⁊ syx ⁊ hundeahtatiġ æfter þǣre Drihtenlīcan mennysċnysse, þat Dioclitianus cāsere, sē wæs frām Agustō ðridde ēac ðrittiġum, sē hæfde twentiġ wintra rīċe.
- It was about two hundred and eighty-six years after the Lordly Incarnation that Emperor Diocletian, who was the thirty-third emperor from Augustus, reigned for twenty years.
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Declension
[edit]Declension of drihtenlīċ — Strong
Declension of drihtenlīċ — Weak
Descendants
[edit]- Middle English: drihtenlice
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Drihtenlic”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.