crepundium

crepundium, ~ia [CL ~ian. pl.] , a rattle. b necklace, ornament. c cradle, swaddling clothes or other emblem of infancy. d cradle song, lullaby. e (pl.) pains of childbirth. a 9‥ ~iorum ‥, þununga WW. b ~ia collo gemmiferis lunulis pendentia Aldh. VirgP 52; thalamis adsciscere nitens / aurea cum rubris offert crēpundia gemmis Id. VirgV 1934 (cf. ib. 611: rubicunda crĕpundia); ~ia, maenoe ‥, ~ium, monile guttoris GlC C 887, 889; 9‥ ~ium, i. monile gu tturis, myne GlH C 2046; 9‥ ~iorum, frætwednessa WW. c cune vel crebundie, cildclaðes Ælf. Gl.; 9‥ cunabula, i. ~ia, initia, rudimenta, vel panni infantie, cildclaþas vel cradelas GlH C 2151; ~ium, cunabulum, cune Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 139; hoc crepodium, a credyle WW; a credylle, cuna ‥, crepedium, ~ium CathA. d angelicus cetus canit alma crepundia, cunas / Christi pangendo virgineosque choros [gl.: ~ia sunt cantilena super cunas pueri] Garl. Epith. 50v; filii nobilium ab ipsis cunabulorum ~iis ad Gallicum idioma informantur Higd. I 59 p. 158. e s1209 matris ejus usque ad vigiliam Epiphanie duraverunt in puerperio ~ia Flor. Hist. II 137.

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