stela (original) (raw)

the stalk of a plant

• Steola caulem, Wrt. Voc. ii. 102, 53: cauliculus, 103, 50: 129, 84, Stela caulem, 13, 14:
  cauliculus,
  76, 11: i. 33, l0.
• Healm
  vel stela culmus, i. stramen spicarum,
  ii.
  137, 58.
• Sæpig stela
  succulentus cauliculus (ramusculus),
  Hpt. Gl. 419, 45.
• Hyre
  (leechwort)
  stela byþ mid geþúfum bógum,
  Lchdm. i. 248, 18.
• Genim ðysse wyrte wós oððe ðone stelan mid ðam wæstme,
  156, 21: 160, 11: 184, 20.
• Eleleáfes stelan, ii. 272, 23.
• Heó hafap nigon wyrttruman and swá fela stelena, i. 238, 17.
• Mid feówer reádum stælum (stelum,
  MS. B.), 154, 15.
• Genim nigon stelan,
  230, 20.

fig.

• Witan sceoldon smeágan hwilc ðæra stelenna ðæs cinestóles wǽre tóbrocen, and bétan ðone sóna. Se cinestól stynt on ðisum þrím stelum:
  laboratores, bellatores, oratores,
  Ælfc. T. Grn. 20, 15-19.

[O. H. Ger. stil thyrsus herbae: Ger. stiel.]

v. steola stealu.

Bosworth, Joseph. “stela.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28856.

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