septemtrioun
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin septentriō, septentriōnem. Compare Modern English septentrion.
Noun
septemtrioun
- septentrion
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale l. 2467:
- Bothe est and weste, [south], and septemtrioun.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monk's Tale l. 2467:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for septemtrioun in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)