licour – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of licour

Noun: licour
Sg.licour
Pl.licours

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • Whan that Auerill wᵗ his shoures soote / The droghte of march hath ꝑced to the roote / And bathed euery veyne in swich lycour / Of which v̄tu engendred is the flour[…] (When that April, with its sweet showers / Has pierced March's drought to the root / And bathed every vein in fluid such that / with its power, the flower is made […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:]

Nouns inflected like licour

schimeringe, synger, serche, sengle, snoute, saucer, sauter, sapour, saphir, sachel, sculle, scrape, scrowe, scisme, sclate, schyfe, schyve, schole, schere, schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French licour, from Latin liquor (“fluidity; a liquid”). See: Latin Nouns 'liquor'.

Verbs referencing "licour"

English Nouns liquor.

Translations