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Latin
Etymology
Unknown, see Usage Notes.
Pronunciation
Noun
imbilium ?
- (hapax) Possibly a light basket, or a basket for catching fish, or a weel for catching fish.
- Cotton MS Cleopatra A.iii, c. 930, archived from the original on 22 March 2022, page 84r, column 1: “leoht leap / Imbilium”
Usage notes
This word is a hapax legomenon attested in the problematic Second Cleopatra Glossary where it is glossed with the also hapax legomenon Old English leoht leap.
William Somner conjectured imbilium may be a mistake for the New Latin impilia 'woollen socks,' or otherwise a dialectal synonym of excipulus, 'a weale; a snatch'.
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