sompnour

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sommonour, somnour

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French semoneor; equivalent to somonen, sompnen +‎ -our.

Noun

sompnour

1. summoner
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Summoner's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 1665-1667:

     This Somnour in his stiropes hye stood;
     Up-on this Frere his herte was so wood,
     That lyk an aspen leef he quook for yre.

     This Summoner in his stirrups stood high;
     Upon this Friar his heart was so enraged,
     That like an aspen leaf he quaked for ire.

References

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