frecor

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frecor m (genitive frecuir or frecoir)

1. verbal noun of fris·cuirethar: worship, cultivation
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 35^a11

     recht frecoir chéill cruithnechtae

     the law of cultivating wheat

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 22^a4

     In loc diambu thabarthi ermitiu feid ⁊ imbu chóir frecur céil Dǽ, at·léntais-[s]om adi ⁊ do·gnitis cech ndochrud and.

     The place to which honor should have been given and in which the worship of God was fitting, they polluted it and did every unseemly thing in it.

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11^b5

     Is sí tra temptatio homana as·rubart túas: freccor céil ídol et accobor á túare.

     This, then, is the temptation of humanity mentioned above: the worship of idols and the desire for their food.

2. objection
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 131^a8

     .i. airrobad frecorp [leg. frecor] aithirrech forsa n-óin-aimn [leg. ainm] beos.

     i.e. as further repetition of the same name would be objectionable.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “frecor”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language