Cleófa

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cleófa

According to the Old English Dictionary:

cleafa, cliófa, an;

cleófa
m. That which is cloven, a cleft, chasm, den, cell, chamber; cubīle, cellarium, cubiculum :-- On heora cleófum oððe holum híg beóþ gelogode in cubilibus suis collocabuntur, Ps. Lamb. 103, 22. Unriht he byþ smeágende on his cliófan iniquitatem meditatus est in cubili suo, Ps. Th. 35, 3. Sinewealt cleófa vel portic absida, Ælfc. Gl. 108; Som. 78, 122; Wrt. Voc. 58, 34. Ðeós sweoster wæs útgangende of hire cleófan hæc soror egressa est de cubiculo, Bd. 4, 9; S. 576, 31. DER. clústor-cleófa, ferhþ-, hord-, in-, nýd-.

Related words: clýfa. cleofa

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