Saxonicus

Saxonicus [LL Saxo+-icus], of the Saxons, Saxon. b (of person) Saxon (also as sb.). c (w. lingua or sim.) language of the Saxons, English, (spec.) Anglo-Saxon (also ellipt. or as sb. f.). d composed or written in the Saxon language. cum Brittones, infesti hostes ~i generis, bellis ‥ Anglorum gentem deturbarent Felix Guthl. 34; ab eo [sc. Severo] agger ~us extructus est contra barbaros, i. e. Pictos Nen. HB 165; ense ~o cum vagina aurea W. Malm. GR II 133; [Haroldus] ultimus de gente ~a rex in Anglia Gir. IK II 11; manu ‥ ~a scribebantur Croyl. 85 (v. duplicare 3a).  b Occidentales ~i, sc. Excestrenses (Leg. Ed.) GAS 665; Saxonici reges V. Merl. 627; qui extitit ~us genere R. Niger Chr. II 154; corrupit quendam ~um ‥ donariis M. Par. Maj. I 227; municipium Oxonie ‥ quod ‥ populus ~us ‥ ad locum studii preelegit StatOx 17.  c virum Latina, Greca et ~a lingua atque eruditione multipliciter instructum Bede HE V 8 p. 296; nullo Brittone ‥ sciente ~am Nen. HB 178; 841 (11c) ut sit liberatum ‥ ab illis incommodis quae nos ~a lingua festingmen dicimus CS 435; quae dicitur in ~a lingua Tenet Asser Alf. 9; a sermone ~o Slesuuic nuncupatur, secundum ‥ Danos, Haithaby Æthelw. I 4; cum Uuilhelmus dux Normannorum regnum Anglie conquesivisset, deliberavit quomodo linguam ~am posset destruere et Angliam et Normanniam in idiomate concordare Holcot Wisd. 42.  d ~a poemata die noctuque solers auditor ‥ memoriter retinebat Asser Alf. 22; quendam ~um poematicae artis librum ‥ in manu habebat Ib. 23; s884 psalmos et ~os libros et ‥ carmina studiose didicere Byrht. HR 78.

Saxŏnĭcus, a, um, des Saxons : Not. Imp. || adj. m. , Saxonique [vainqueur des Saxons] : Pacat. Pan. Theod. 5, fin.