lustbære

Old English

Etymology

From lust +‎ -bǣre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlustˌbæː.re/

Adjective

lustbǣre

  1. desirous, desirable, pleasant, agreeable
    • c. 1000, Ælfric of Eynsham, "Genesis;" reprinted and normalized in Bruce Mitchell, Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, Fifth Edition, Oxford.: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1992, reprinted in 1999, Part II, Section 2, page 174, lines 11-13:
      Þā ġeseah þæt wīf þæt þæt trēow wæs gōd tō etanne, be þām þe hire þūhte, and wlitiġ on ēagum and lustbǣre on ġesihðe;
      Then saw the woman that the tree was good to eat, as she thought, and beautiful to the eyes and desirable in sight;

Declension

Derived terms

References

Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lust-bǽre”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.