Láþettan
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - láþettan
According to the Old English Dictionary:
In the last two passages láþettan translates infestare, which however is for infestari. The original Latin of the two translations is: Canes latrantes uiderit vel eis infestare, and: Camelos uidere et ab eis se uiderit infestare.
- láþettan
- For 'To be odious . . . hate' substitute: I. to abhor, execrate, hate, hold in detestation :-- Þíne goda ic láðette and him teónan dó ego diis tuis abominationem feci, Angl. xvii. 116, 4. Man tó forð láþet þæt man scolde lufian, Wlfst. 165, 3 [: 168, 13: Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 8 : Shrn. 39, 22, in Dict.]. Ongunnon hí hine onscunigean and láðettan mid máran orwyrðum fracoðlicra worda majoribus hunc verborum contumeliis detestari coeperunt, Gr. D. 250, 28. II. to make hateful, render odious.