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the problem is "aitre" is generally received to come from lat. ater, atrum
(the aître saint Maclou is black, as if it had been tarred) ; but Aire Saint
Mitre is provencal, you know... I ought to search in Mistral's Tresor du
felibrige, but Gallica is desperately slow this morning...
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N'en sai plus dire
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Denis Hüe,
responsable du Master Lettres Langues Communication
Centre d'Etude des Textes Médiévaux, (CETM-CELAM)
Université de Haute Bretagne
http://www.uhb.fr/alc/medieval
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From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Saint Mittre
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Marjorie,
The word "aître" means cemetery (or more generally, churchyard), as in the
Aître
Saint-Maclou in Rouen.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
On 11 Jun 2005 at 16:42, Marjorie Greene wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> It's definitely "aire." It shows up in my dictionary as "area" or "space."
> I'm curious why you thought it wasn't a word in current French usage... I
> don't know the word "aître" and it's not in my (pocket) dictionary. What
> does it mean?
> The gutenberg.org translation of the novel calls Saint Mittre "a greatly
> honoured Provençal saint," but as I said, I can't find any evidence of
such
> a saint anywhere, including French websites.
> Thanks,
> MG
> p.s. The cemetery is a "former" one, so the "Saint-Mittre area" would be a
> reasonable appelation. I guess I should go back to gutenberg to find out
how
> "aire" is translated.
>
> >From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
> > culture <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: [M-R] Saint Mittre
> >Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 17:51:22 -0500
> >
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > > In the opening tome of Zola's _Les Rougon-Macquart_, there is a former
> > > cemetery located in the "aire Saint-Mittre."
> >
> >Marjorie,
> >I don't know about the saint, but "aire" should probably be "aître",
unless
> >it
> >represents a local dialect of some sort.
> >Cheers,
> >Jim Bugslag
> >
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