wisdom – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of wisdom

Noun: wisdom
Sg.wisdom
Pl.wisdomes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • ⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþ (And the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on […]) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, folio 123, recto, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like wisdom

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old English wīsdom. Equivalent to wys + -dom. See: Old English Nouns 'wīsdom'.

Verbs referencing "wisdom"

English Nouns wisdom.

Translations