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pelestre (s.xii2)
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pelestre (s.xii2)

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pelectre;  peletere,  peletre,  peletree,  pelettre,  peleystre;  pelitre,  pellestre,  pelletere,  pellettre  (pelitrion  Five Med MSS 163.E496,  perestre  Plant Names 237)  
  FEW:  pyrethum 9,648b Gdf:  pelestre 1 6,67c GdfC: ∅ TL: pelestre 7,592 DEAF:  pelestre  DMF:  pelestre  TLF: ∅ OED:  pelleter n.2  MED:  peltre n.  DMLBS:  pelestricum 2168c

According to the OED, Classical Latin pyrethrum (producing piretre, pelestre and petre1) and Medieval Latin parietaria (producing peritorie) became confused early, resulting in a semantic overlap between the two word-families. However, the association with ‘creeping thyme’, suggested by thirteenth-century glosses and also attested for petre1, remains unclear.

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1bot.pellitory, Spanish chamomile, Anacyclus pyretrum (the root of which was turned into a powder and used for medicinal purposes): 
( MS: s.xii2 )  [A]ccipe [...] la racine de ruge parele, peletre, quinquefoille, crespe mave, cerfoil […]  Pop Med 65.8
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [P]ernez pelectre e pevre e orpiment [...]  A-N Med i 67
( s.xiii2; MS: c.1400 )  Piretrum, herba est satis communis, radix eius multum est acuta in sapore qua utimur; gallice et anglice pelestre  Alph 145.11
( MS: s.xiiiex )  Piretrum: (A6) gallice pelestre (var. (A12: s.xiii4/4) gallice peretre; (B4: s.xiv1/4) pelletere; (A1: c.1300) gallice peletre de Espayne; (A5: c.1300) peletre savage)  Plant Names 208
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Akarkarha: pelitre  Gloss Arab 394.401
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Poudre fet de pellettre est bon ad cescun maladie  A-N Med ii 264.134
( MS: s.xv )  Herbes a medecyne: [...] flur de geneste, pelettre, cumferie, sanicle [...]  Five Med MSS 139.E259
2bot.creeping thyme, Thymus serpyllum: 
( MS: s.xiii )  serpillum: petir, pelestre  TLL ii 112.67
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  serpellum: (D) pelestre (var. (C: s.xiii2) peleystre; (L: s.xiii/xiv) pelletre)  TLL ii 70.67

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petre1  piretre 
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