Eár-lip[p]rica (-e)

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eár-lip[p]rica (-e)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

The gender is uncertain, the word occurring with masc. fem. and neut. pronouns.

eár-lip[p]rica (-e)
The flap of the ear (used only in the Northern specimens):--Ðió eárliprece auricula, Lk. p. 11, 6. Eárlipprico his ðió suíðro (eárliprica his ðæt swíðra, R.) auriculam ejus dextram, Lk. L. 22, 50. Eárliprico (-a, R.), 51. Ðone æárliprica (ðá eárelipprica, L.) auriculam, Mk. R. 14, 47. Eárlipprica ꝥ (altered from ðió) sníðra (eárliprica ðæt swíðra, R.), Jn. L. 18, 10. Eórlippric (eárliprica, R.), 26, Eároliprice, Mt. L. 26, 51. In eárliprico (-a, R.) in auriculas, Mk. L. 7, 33. [Cf. (?) O. L. Ger. lepor a lip, and -ic- diminutive suffix ] ear-lipprica -e
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