Sedabum
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Sedabum scripsit Stephanus pro sadeb quod est ruta.
Apparatus:
Sedabum (-buʒ e; -bũ B) ABC ejp | Seddabum f
sadeb AC efjp | sedab B
quod (quod C f) AC f | que (q̄ j) B ej | om. p
Translation:
Stephanus writes sedabum instead of Arabic sadeb which means ruta {"rue"} in Latin.
Commentary:
Wehr (1976): ﺳﺬﺍﺏ /saḏāb/ "rue, herb of grace" (bot.); Siggel (1950: 41): ﺳﺬﺍﺏ /saḏāb/ Ruta graveolens, Raute {i.e. "rue"}.
Stephanus in his Breviarium writes: Piganõ … seddabũ [[1]]. Ruta in Greek is πήγανον /pḗganon/. Stephanus transcribes the medieval itacist pronunciation /píganon/.
For the Arabic lemma see Sadeb.
WilfGunther 26/05/2014
See also: Ruta