Old English Dictionary Entry

Ge-trum

Part of speech: es;

Definitions

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1 ge-trum

n. A knot, band, mass, company, company of soldiers; nodus, caterva, cohors, exercitus :-- Getrum nodus, inter militāria, Ælfc. Gl. 7; Som. 56, 81; Wrt. Voc. 18, 33. Fyrd sceal ætsomne, tírfæstra getrum the army shall be assembled, a band of warriors, Menol. Fox 523; Gn. C. 32. Under tungla getrumum under the troops of stars, Salm. Kmbl. 285; Sal. 142. He eft gewát getrume micle he returned with a great company, Andr. Kmbl. 1413; An. 707: Beo. Th. 1849; B. 922: Exon. 90 a; Th. 337, 12; Gn. Ex. 63. DER. án-getrum, folc-, fyrd-, gár-. ge-trum

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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛏᚱᚢᛗ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

An.: Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.: Andreas (OE poem)
Beo.: Beowulf
C.: Corpus Christi College MS
Exon.: Exeter Book
Fox: Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
Sal.: Psalms of Solomon (OE)
Som.: Somner's Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum
Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
Ælfc.: Ælfric

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