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portable (s.xiiiex)

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The form portible is a cross reference to the following entry:

portable (s.xiiiex)

portabel,  portible  
  FEW:  portare 9,208a Gdf:  portable 6,312b GdfC:  portable 10,379b TL: portable 7,1576 DEAF:  porter (portable)  DMF:  portable  TLF:  portable  OED:  portable a. and n.  MED:  portable a.  DMLBS:  portabilis 2352c

The exceptional substantival use of this word is found only once in a vernacular gloss to the Latin term gerulus in John of Garland’s Unus Omnium (where any context is lacking). Its definition (and grammatical categorisation) is debatable, but mirrors that of the Latin word gerulus (DMLBS 1071c).

a.

1portable, that can be carried or transported
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Jabel [...] controeva primes tentes et pavillons portables  TREVET Cron1 5.6
(that can be) carried (in pregnancy)
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  O Jhesu, [...] en ta divinité Ne poont estre si privé Comme celle (=BVM) en qui tu es portable  GOWER Mirour 29821
lawtransferable
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Naam mort [...] n’est mie portable ne chaceable hors del fieu  Mir Just 71
2bearable, endurable, sustainable
( 1372 )  soient les mesons ensi devenues es mains du Roi lessees [...] a persones engleys, en fee, au a terme de vie, pur la ferme anciene, ou pur meindre ferme portable  Foedera1 iii 967
( 1380 )  qe rienz ne y feust demandez forsqe ce qe feust portable a la comune  Rot Parl1 iii 89.12
( 1382 )  Le roi voet qe ses chanceller, tresorer et gardein du privé seal [...] ent facent tielle et si bone et hastive ordinance come mieltz lour semblera affaire qe soit portable  Rot Parl1 iii 146.13
lit portable
lit1
nient portable
nientportable
nun portable
nunportable

s.?

bearer, carrier, porter (?)
( MS: s.xiiiex )  gerulus: portable  TLL ii 163

[gdw]

See also:

aportable  deportable  emportable1  importable  nientportable  nunportable  port2  portage  portance  portatif  porté1  portelof  portemartel  portement  porteose  portepain  portepes  porter2  porteresse1  porteure1  portur1  porture1  supportable 
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