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Thank you to Andre-Yves Bourges, Bill East, and John Briggs for the help
with ob(s)cenositas, and especially to John for letting me know that
Pelbartus' sermons were edited and online (which I did not know). Its a
great comparandum; my text is Betrand of Tours, OM, written ca. 1330.
With much appreciation,
cecilia
M.C.Gaposchkin, Ph.D.
History, Dartmouth College
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Fwd: Re: Fwd: [M-R] vocabulary help: scenositate
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:32:11 +0100
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Andr é-Yves BOURGES wrote:
>
>I am not able to find "obscenositas" in my Gaffiot's Latin
>Dictionary, only "obscenitas".
also "osbcaenitas"
>"Caenositas" alias "coenositas" means "mud or muck".
>
>"in lasciviae caenositate" = "in the mud of wantonness"
I think both explanations are correct: "caenum" gives "caenosus" and
"caenositas". "Lutum" gives "lutosus". But confusion with "obscaenum" and
"obscaenitas" seems to have resulted in "lutum et caenum" being rendered as
"lutum et scaenum" and "lutosus et caenosus" as "lutosus et scaenosus" (
http://emc.elte.hu/pelbart/pa101.html ) It is only a small step to rendering
"caenositas" as "sc(a)enositas".
John Briggs
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